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From: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists@ralfgross.de>
To: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(2)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:23:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100922192328.GC23326@pirx.askja.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100922103134.4e652651@galadriel.home>

Emmanuel Florac schrieb:
> Le Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:26:53 +0200 vous écriviez:
> 
> > Infortrend RAID with BBU -> DRBD -> LVM -> XFS
> 
> I'm not sure to understand; DRBD is used to mirror devices, are you
> using 2 Infortrend arrays, or one split into two volumes? 

yes, 2 drbd/heartbeat nodes, 2 Infortrend systems

 
> In any case, battery protected write cache shouldn't create any
> corruption (OTOH it will enhance performance dramatically). AFAIK all
> RAID arrays mirror the drives cache in the array cache until it hits
> platters. There may be some "cheating" hard drives (I heard that WD
> isn't always totally clear about cache policies) but Seagate and Hitachi
> professional grade drives definitely are OK. Hint: don't use desktop
> hard drives in any case because they probably cheat about cache
> synchronisation.

The drives are 15000 RPM SAS drives, so no desktops drives. As far as
I understand the documentation, when the "Delayed Drive Write" RAID
option is enabled, there is the possibility of data loss.
 
> I see that you may have been running rsync at the time of failure; there
> are quite a lot of quite unclear (to me at least) cases of XFS failures
> when running rsync to copy large amount of data. I it a fully 64 bits
> system?

There were many more lines with this error in the logs. Triggered by
smbd, rsync, bacula...

Ralf

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-22  7:26 XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(2) Ralf Gross
2010-09-22  8:31 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-22 19:23   ` Ralf Gross [this message]
2010-09-22  8:32 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-22 12:11   ` Ralf Gross
2010-09-22 23:24     ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-23  8:48       ` Ralf Gross

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