From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n92Gthmt192328 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:55:44 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 42FC111966BC for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.121]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id aTayhVeiCHHOdyuU for ; Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:57:04 -0500 From: David Engel Subject: Re: XFS/driver bug or bad drive? Message-ID: <20091002165704.GA17558@opus.istwok.net> References: <20091001232759.GA12832@opus.istwok.net> <4AC54BDA.20806@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AC54BDA.20806@sandeen.net> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, Eric Sandeen On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 07:39:54PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > These are all storage errors, not xfs. I suppose it could be > differing IO patterns from one fs or the other that trips it up, but > nothing above is related to an xfs bug; any xfs problems are in > response to the above IO errors, maybe a hardware problem or a > driver problem, not sure - but most likely a hardware issue I think. > You might point smartctl at the drive and see what it says. I agree it shouldn't be an xfs bug. I thought it was strange, though, that the problem only seemed to show up with xfs on 2.6.30.x. IO pattern sensitivity wouldn't surprise me, but I wanted to check all my bases before giving up on the drive. Michael Monnerie wrote: > Yes, that Samsung crap. Of the very few drives we had (the 1TB version), > all got broken quickly, and we replaced them with Hitachis. It's a pity, > as they had a nice price, but when they it your data, it's priceless. I've used mostly Samsung drives for several years. This particular 750GB model is the only one that I consider a lemon. David -- David Engel david@istwok.net _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs