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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Ling Ho <ling@slac.stanford.edu>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Debugging file truncation problem
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:01:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120621090111.GA10673@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE2BF74.9010406@slac.stanford.edu>

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:30:12PM -0700, Ling Ho wrote:
> On 6/20/12 11:02 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 06:51:39PM -0700, Ling Ho wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I am trying to debug a problem that has bugged us for the last few months.
> >>
> >>We have set up a large storage system using GlusterFS, and XFS
> >>underneath it. We have 5 RHEL6.2 servers (running
> >>2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 when problem last occurred), with LSI
> >>9285-8e Raid Controller with Battery Backup Unit. System memory is
> >>48GB.
> >Perhaps you should report the problem to your RedHat support
> >engineer and tell them to raise a bug - it's entire possible that
> >the RH kernel needs this fix:
> >
> >be4f1ac xfs: log all dirty inodes in xfs_fs_sync_fs
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Dave.
> >
> Ok. Is there a bug reference number or thread I can point to?

The above commit is all that is needed - I'll be the person who
fixes the bug in the RH kernel, anyway, so not much else is needed
;)

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-06-21  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-21  1:51 Debugging file truncation problem Ling Ho
2012-06-21  6:02 ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-21  6:30   ` Ling Ho
2012-06-21  9:01     ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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