From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n3THxAkL172833 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:59:13 -0500 Received: from slurp.thebarn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 66901145CF5E for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slurp.thebarn.com (cattelan-host202.dsl.visi.com [208.42.117.202]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id ot2Si9kAREGpkJBy for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49F89549.8090505@thebarn.com> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:58:33 -0500 From: Russell Cattelan 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> <49F88E73.7060403@houseofnate.net> In-Reply-To: <49F88E73.7060403@houseofnate.net> 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 Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: "Nathaniel W. Turner" , xfs-oss -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: > 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, The crash is probably due to a bad inode, the file system needs to be repaired. > 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/ That is a good suggestion, 2.9.8 is quite old at this point. xfs_check might also be useful as it might point to the problem inode. > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ+JVJNRmM+OaGhBgRAilEAJ9jBvIqlvMtlog0Oyeeb0BPbaMrowCfXmTE 2Pk4UxofSyr1zq6Dfuq8aDk= =L9qB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs