From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m8GIRuRS029411 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:27:56 -0700 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 430684459EA for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id BZpI1bO0cNWNGOgp for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:29:27 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: read only remount not so happy Message-ID: <20080916182927.GA13562@infradead.org> References: <20080916055614.GX5811@disturbed> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080916055614.GX5811@disturbed> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Jeff Breidenbach , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:56:14PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:03:41PM -0700, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > This is starting to go downhill. Everything is still running, but some > > processes that interact with the filesystem actions are performing > > slowly. > > > > === > > > > > > [9608310.848311] Assertion failed: atomic_read(&mp->m_active_trans) == > > 0, file: /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/fs/xfs/xfs_vfsops.c, line: 708 > > Known problem. Race in the VFS code - fix is due in 2.6.28, I think. > Details can be found by googling the error message. Reboot the system. I haven't seen anyone actually making progress on this in the VFS. I'll try to see if I can sort it out myself.