From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:49:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id m330nBpS031090 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:49:15 -0700 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:49:34 +1000 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: Serious XFS crash Message-ID: <20080403004934.GM103491721@sgi.com> References: <20080325185453.3a1957dd@galadriel.home> <20080325233611.GW103491721@sgi.com> <20080401140035.46470306@galadriel.home> <20080402055831.GG103491721@sgi.com> <20080402133003.4bb043e4@galadriel.home> <20080402220750.GJ103491721@sgi.com> <20080403002248.4bd263e6@galadriel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080403002248.4bd263e6@galadriel.home> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Emmanuel Florac Cc: David Chinner , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:22:48AM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote: > Le Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:07:50 +1000 vous écriviez: > > > I'd go and find whatever disk is located at LBA 0xE6DCA-0xE6E2A and > > replace it - if there are that many repairs needed on it, it's likely > > to be failing.... > > > > Oh, it failed and I changed it. However it's a RAID-5 and though it > appeared corrected, as you've seen the XFS fs crashed for no apparent > reason (there was little or no activity at the time of the march 23rd > crash) later. I was wondering if it could be related, for instance if > some garbage may have remained hidden somewhere and break it later, > like a standing nail waiting for someone to step on it... Yes, entirely possible. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group