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 n8FFnk8n170630 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:49:46 -0500 Received: from mail.jquigley.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id A2580B3C020 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.jquigley.com (main.jquigley.com [67.23.32.156]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 8WFcinamOEnJNYqc for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AAFB7E2.9010902@jquigley.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:50:58 -0500 From: John Quigley MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS corruption with power failure References: <606994882.2142291250648292843.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> <4A8C1E6E.8020405@jquigley.com> <4A9187C7.9010206@jquigley.com> <4A9576F0.2060304@jquigley.com> <20090901181341.GC26071@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090901181341.GC26071@infradead.org> 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: Christoph Hellwig Cc: XFS Development Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:54:56PM -0500, John Quigley wrote: >> John Quigley wrote: >>> John Quigley wrote: >>>> We've distilled this into a reproducible environment with a stack of >>>> NFS + XFS to a local disk + automated sysrq 'b' reboots. We're >>>> working on getting this bundled up into a nice little package as a >>>> VirtualBox vm for your consumption. Please tell me if this is not >>>> desirable. >>> The self-contained and reproducible environment can be downloaded from >>> the following location: >>> >>> http://www.jquigley.com/tmp/xfsVM.tar.bz2 >> Has anyone by chance had an opportunity to utilize this? Any corruption reports? > > Looked at it, but it turns virtualbox is a real big pile of junk > including it's own huge kernel module. Qemu/kvm now has support for the > virtualbox disk images and I will give it a try next. Ping ... sorry to be a bother. I've finally gotten some time allocated to look at this at the code level, but I'm unfamiliar with the XFS implementation, and I believe this problem arises as an interaction between XFS and NFS, which causes me heartburn. I'll report here if I discover anything meaningful. - John Quigley _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs