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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
	Alan Piszcz <ap@solarrain.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_db 2.9.8: coredump
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:48:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <495856A7.6040608@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081228223917.GC22525@disturbed>

Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:52:10PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>>>> # xfs_db -V
>>>>> xfs_db version 2.9.8
>>>>>
>>>>> p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -f /dev/sda1
>>>>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>>>> p34:~# xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/sda1
>>>>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>>>>
>>>>> (It was working BEFORE I ran xfs_fsr on it, it was at 16% fragmentation).
>>>>>
>>>>> Now it can no longer check it?
> 
> xfs_db works on the block device under the filesystem, not the
> filesystem. Also, the block device on linux caches blocks, so
> after running xfs_fsr the filesystem layout has changed but the
> underlying block device now has a stale cache. hence xfs_db is
> probably being pointed off into la-la land by the stale block
> device cache.

Ah, missed the part about doing it online.  Probably shouldn't segfault
though, I suppose.

-Eric

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-29  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-26 14:36 xfs_db 2.9.8: coredump Justin Piszcz
2008-12-26 17:10 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-26 17:12 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-26 17:45   ` Justin Piszcz
2008-12-26 17:52     ` Justin Piszcz
2008-12-28 22:39       ` Dave Chinner
2008-12-28 22:44         ` Justin Piszcz
2008-12-29  4:48         ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-12-26 19:18     ` Eric Sandeen

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