From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [66.187.233.31]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id lA2GAWvv021419 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:10:36 -0700 Message-ID: <472B4BF8.2040500@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:10:32 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xfs_force_shutdown called from file fs/xfs/xfs_trans_buf.c References: <06CCEA2EB1B80A4A937ED59005FA855101AED1BE@svits26.main.ad.rit.edu> <472A87FA.7000804@sandeen.net> <9489F071-7966-4230-9DAC-D783B6B9600A@rit.edu> <472A8BB9.7040100@sandeen.net> <20071102090740.GB23263@p15145560.pureserver.info> In-Reply-To: <20071102090740.GB23263@p15145560.pureserver.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Ralf Gross Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Ralf Gross wrote: > Eric Sandeen schrieb: >> ... >> What controller are you using? If you say "areca" I might be on to >> something with some other bugs I've seen... > > I use areca controllers with xfs, but had no problems yet. Can you > explain what bugs might hit me? maybe none, it was just a wild guess. :) I've seen a bug on ext3, volumes > 2T corrupted, on an areca controller. Due to the 2T threshold, it seems more like a lower layer IO issue (2^32 x 512) than a filesystem issue... googling a bit I found others with problems on areca, but then that's what I googled for, so I might have self-selected. So, maybe nothing, I was just looking for a 3rd data point. -Eric