From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
Cc: Lin Li <sdeber@gmail.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS write cache flush policy
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 20:53:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121208195304.GA20044@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5955806.tSHc7WOiJd@saturn>
On 08.12.2012 20:40, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 20:29:27 schrieb Matthias Schniedermeyer:
> > I have the same problem, several times.
>
> I'd like to chime in here, with a similar issue: I have Linux on my
> desktop, xfs is the home partition, 16G RAM. One day my system froze, no
> chance to do a buffer flush via SYS-S/U/B, I had to press the reset
> button (no power off, just reset). Upon restart, *lots* of files were
> gone, destroyed, etc, and my KDE desktop wouldn't work anymore. Luckily
> I have backups, and could restore - but this just shouldn't happen, and
> it was *much* better with older kernels. What is the problem that
> metadata isn't written to disk occasionally? I was on 3.6.6 when that
> happened, now on 3.6.8, so very recent.
Now that you say it, this is what happend one of the other times,
luckily i had done a backup just before i rebooted, so after
xfs_repair'ing the partition (the only time i had to repair something
for as long as i'm using XFS) i had to restore my home-directory from
backup to get my desktop in a usable state again.
--
Matthias
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-08 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-06 8:51 XFS write cache flush policy Lin Li
2012-12-08 19:29 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-08 19:40 ` Michael Monnerie
2012-12-08 19:51 ` Joe Landman
2012-12-08 19:53 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2012-12-09 7:19 ` Lin Li
2012-12-10 1:01 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-10 20:14 ` Michael Monnerie
2012-12-10 0:58 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-10 9:12 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-10 20:54 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-12-10 21:45 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-11 0:25 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-10 0:45 ` Dave Chinner
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