From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:41:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m9MMeunv027489 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:40:56 -0700 Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 17C8D12C3CE1 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net [203.16.214.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id SkfrfmqAlTPEEs6W for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:42:35 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: 2.6.27.[0,2] problems (v. 2.6.26.5): Samba & root-read-only Message-ID: <20081022224235.GW18495@disturbed> References: <48FED90F.7030809@tlinx.org> <20081022223005.GV18495@disturbed> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081022223005.GV18495@disturbed> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Linda Walsh , LKML , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:30:05AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:41:03AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > > I am having to stay at 2.6.26.5 for now on my main home server. > > > > Going to 2.6.27 (and just trying 2.6.27.2), I'm have two VERY weird (would > > appear to be user-land probs from symptoms), problems. > > > > 1) Samba -- the system is a Samba domain controller. When I boot using > > the 2.6.27.2 kernel (or .0 before), I can no longer mount any file systems > > from my windows client. > ..... > > > > 2) My root disk comes up READ-ONLY. It uses XFS. I am NOT able to remount > > read/write (mount -o remount,rw /, fails writing to Read-only /etc/mtab, > > mount -n -o remount,rw doesn't give an error message, but doesn't make the > > drive R/W. Root fs is on an adaptec FAST-SCSI (80MB/s) with an 18MB Seagate > > (root, disk is oldest disk on the system). > > That XFS problem should be fixed in 2.6.27.3, whenever that is going > to be released. It was sent and ACK'd by the stable team a week ago, > but for some reason missed 2.6.27.2. 2.6.27.3 was released as I was writing this, so the fix is available now. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com