From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steffen Knauf <Steffen.Knauf@gmx.net>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_log_force: error 5 returend
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:46:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AAE8180.6020609@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090914164138.GA13081@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:05:48PM +0200, Steffen Knauf wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> sometimes, our server crashed with xfs_log_force: error 5.
>> It isn't reproducible and a xfs_check / xfs_repair don't find some errors.
>>
>> Perhaps it's a bug?
>
> Error 5 is EIO, and xfs_log_force basically passed the error through
> from the underlying device. Most likely it is an issue with the
> underlying storage device.
Also, just to be semantically correct, it's unlikely that this was a
"server crash" - most likely you got an IO error, xfs noticed it, and
shut itself down for safety.
-Eric
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-14 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 10:05 xfs_log_force: error 5 returend Steffen Knauf
2009-09-14 15:09 ` Tomek Kruszona
2009-09-14 16:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-14 17:46 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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