From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201E17CBF for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 19:45:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB07AC001 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 17:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.143]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id tGc9aOSYgfqSYe3k for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 17:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:45:21 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: 2.6.27-based kernel failing xfstests xfs/182 Message-ID: <20130514004521.GP32675@dastard> References: <519176E7.8070204@genband.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <519176E7.8070204@genband.com> 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 Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Chris Friesen Cc: Ben Myers , Alex Elder , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 05:27:35PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm working on an embedded system running a 2.6.27-based kernel. > > I'm digging into some intermittent xfs corruption issues. Yes, I > realize the right answer is probably to upgrade, but for the usual > embedded reasons that's tricky. > > I'm seeing test xfs/182 fail with 40 or so files showing messages like: > > file /opt/xfstest2/960 has incorrect size - sync failed > > In our case the xfs filesystems used for testing are on top of lvm, > which is in turn on top of two SAS drives in RAID1. > > Any suggestions on where I should start looking? I'm looking at the > "do_sync() and XFSQA test 182 failures...." thread on the mailing > list from 2008, can someone point me to the commit that eventually > resulted from that? I doubt anyone can pinpoint a fix for you. I'd suggest that you find the kernel release where the test starts passing, and the work backwards from there... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs