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 n3THTu6d171645 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:29:57 -0500 Received: from millhouse.houseofnate.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 8661324D59D for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from millhouse.houseofnate.net (dsl092-086-237.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.86.237]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id VYzmdlq6hnrmNpOJ for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49F88E73.7060403@houseofnate.net> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:29:23 -0400 From: "Nathaniel W. Turner" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: crashes with xfs_fsr in 2.6.25-2-amd64 and 2.6.26-1-amd64 (debian) (f'up) References: <20090428032406.GA14234@schmorp.de> In-Reply-To: <20090428032406.GA14234@schmorp.de> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Marc Lehmann Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Hi Marc, Marc Lehmann wrote: > It also happens to the same filesystem each time (maybe because > it does the heavy I/O),a and it is also the same filesystem where > xfs_repair hangs in an endless loop often (but not always). (see > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525880) > > The filesystem was created a month or so ago using blocksize of 512 and > lazy-count=1, but I have many of those xfs filesystems. > > Since this is a production system and I have no backup abilities, I have > to no choice but to reformat the disk now. > I'm not sure about the root cause of your crash, but I just wanted to mention that before you blow away this filesystem, you should probably try repairing it with a recent version of xfs_repair (like 3.0.0). ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/ Also, I have seen similar problems to those described in Debian bug 525880 with xfs_repair not making progress (although I'm running 32-bit), and adding "-P" to the xfs_repair invocation helped in many cases. Cheers, nate -- Nathaniel W. Turner http://houseofnate.net/ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs