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From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
To: "Nathaniel W. Turner" <nate@houseofnate.net>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: crashes with xfs_fsr in 2.6.25-2-amd64 and 2.6.26-1-amd64 (debian) (f'up)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:58:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F89549.8090505@thebarn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F88E73.7060403@houseofnate.net>

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Nathaniel W. Turner wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Marc Lehmann wrote:
>> It also happens to the same filesystem each time (maybe because
>> it does the heavy I/O),a and it is also the same filesystem where
>> xfs_repair hangs in an endless loop often (but not always). (see
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525880)
>>
>> The filesystem was created a month or so ago using blocksize of 512
>> and
>> lazy-count=1, but I have many of those xfs filesystems.
>>
>> Since this is a production system and I have no backup abilities, I
>> have
>> to no choice but to reformat the disk now.
>>  
> I'm not sure about the root cause of your crash,
The crash is probably due to a bad inode, the file system needs to be
repaired.
> but I just wanted to mention that before you blow away this
> filesystem, you should probably try repairing it with a recent
> version of xfs_repair (like 3.0.0).
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/
That is a good suggestion, 2.9.8 is quite old at this point.
xfs_check might also be useful as it might point to the problem inode.
>
> Also, I have seen similar problems to those described in Debian bug
> 525880 with xfs_repair not making progress (although I'm running
> 32-bit), and adding "-P" to the xfs_repair invocation helped in many
> cases.
>
> Cheers,
> nate
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-28  3:24 crashes with xfs_fsr in 2.6.25-2-amd64 and 2.6.26-1-amd64 (debian) (f'up) Marc Lehmann
2009-04-29 17:29 ` Nathaniel W. Turner
2009-04-29 17:58   ` Russell Cattelan [this message]

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