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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: easily reproducible filesystem crash on rebuilding array
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:59:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150113145940.3bf674ba@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150113122108.2d3a5ccc@harpe.intellique.com>

Le Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:21:08 +0100
Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com> écrivait:

> * XFS v4 on rebuilding adaptec RAID fails under heavy IO, with or
>   without LVM, with kernels 3.2.xx up to 3.17.7.
> 
> * Today I've run the same test with ext4 : no problem whatsoever. I'm
>   rechecking md5 of all files to get sure, but it looks OK so far
> after testing several terabytes. 
> 
> I don't understand how the RAID firmware could send back bad data
> (corrupted metadata AND data) to XFS but not to ext4...
> 

Beep, the md5 are wrong. So we see why we love XFS : when the RAID
controller spits nonsense, it barks and cries and dies noisily :)

ext4 didn't notice any problem, though the data is mangled. This is
bad...

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-13 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-11 11:39 easily reproducible filesystem crash on rebuilding array Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-11 15:52 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-12-15 12:07 ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-15 12:25   ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-15 20:10     ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-16  7:56       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-16 11:38         ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-16 17:21           ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-16 11:34       ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-16 19:58         ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-17 11:21           ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-18 15:40           ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-18 22:58             ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-19 11:57               ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-19 23:06                 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-16 11:08     ` easily reproducible filesystem crash on rebuilding array [XFS bug in my book] Emmanuel Florac
2014-12-16 20:04       ` Dave Chinner
2015-01-13 11:21 ` easily reproducible filesystem crash on rebuilding array Emmanuel Florac
2015-01-13 13:59   ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
     [not found] <CAH-PCH7W4yTDRhAiKQwN_wQJMx2sTitQYrLNPcLYHvJRucXBjA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-09-17  6:17 ` Emmanuel Florac
2015-09-17  7:21   ` Ferenc Kovacs
2015-09-17 11:17     ` Emmanuel Florac

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