From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS hung on 2.6.33.3 kernel
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:57:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100718045702.GB6282@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100718012033.GA18888@dastard>
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:20:33AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> So, back to the situation with the WARN_ON(). You're running
> applications that are doing something that:
>
> a) is not supported;
> b) compromises data integrity guarantees;
> c) is not reliably reported; and
> d) might be causing hangs
>
> Right now I'm not particularly inclined to dig into this further;
> it's obvious the applications are doing something that is not
> supported (by XFS or the generic page cache code), so this is the
> first thing you really need to care about getting fixed if you value
> your backups...
While it's slightly crazy it's also a pretty easy way for users to shoot
themselve in their feet. Unlike the generic filesystems with their
simplistic i_mutex locking we have a way to assure this works properly
in XFS with the shared/exclusive iolock, so I'm willing to look into
this further.
Ilia, would you be willing to test patches for this?
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-17 4:01 XFS hung on 2.6.33.3 kernel Ilia Mirkin
2010-07-18 1:20 ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-18 1:35 ` Ilia Mirkin
2010-07-18 23:50 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-03 22:30 ` Ilia Mirkin
2010-08-04 0:47 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-04 1:15 ` Ilia Mirkin
2010-08-04 4:27 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-04 4:39 ` Ilia Mirkin
2010-08-04 6:53 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-04 15:40 ` Ilia Mirkin
2010-08-05 5:45 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-05 6:25 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-05 6:42 ` Ilia Mirkin
2010-08-07 10:08 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-04 21:44 ` qiyansun
2010-07-18 4:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-07-18 5:28 ` Ilia Mirkin
2010-07-18 20:17 ` Ilia Mirkin
2010-07-18 23:33 ` Dave Chinner
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