From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id qB8Joh1p052325 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:50:43 -0600 Received: from awesome.dsw2k3.info (awesome.dsw2k3.info [195.71.86.230]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id wsgHet4S2iFGuV69 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:53:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 20:53:04 +0100 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer Subject: Re: XFS write cache flush policy Message-ID: <20121208195304.GA20044@citd.de> References: <20121208192927.GA17875@citd.de> <5955806.tSHc7WOiJd@saturn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5955806.tSHc7WOiJd@saturn> 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: Michael Monnerie Cc: Lin Li , xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs