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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: XFS dirty after sync/reboot?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:50:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130125185040.GC27055@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5102CFD7.20400@ubuntu.com>

Hey Philip,

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:32:55PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> While triaging a bug filed in Ubuntu involving odd reboot failures, it
> appears that XFS leaves the filesystem in a corrupt state that
> requires journal playback to fix after a sync or reboot.  Grub2
> doesn't seem to understand the journal, leading to all kinds of
> confusion after the reboot.
>
> Shouldn't a full sync or remount to r/o flush the journal transactions
> and leave the fs fully clean?

It should.  We have a bug in xfs in that area.

> Original bug report: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1103187

Try this patch which was recently proposed for 3.5-3.7 stable trees:
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-12/msg00324.html

Regards,
Ben

      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-25 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-25 18:32 XFS dirty after sync/reboot? Phillip Susi
2013-01-25 18:50 ` Ben Myers [this message]

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