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From: Joe Landman <joe.landman@gmail.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS write cache flush policy
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:51:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C39A2F.8090006@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5955806.tSHc7WOiJd@saturn>

On 12/08/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 20:29:27 schrieb Matthias Schniedermeyer:
>> I have the same problem, several times.
>
> I'd like to chime in here, with a similar issue: I have Linux on my
> desktop, xfs is the home partition, 16G RAM. One day my system froze, no
> chance to do a buffer flush via SYS-S/U/B, I had to press the reset
> button (no power off, just reset). Upon restart, *lots* of files were
> gone, destroyed, etc, and my KDE desktop wouldn't work anymore. Luckily
> I have backups, and could restore - but this just shouldn't happen, and
> it was *much* better with older kernels. What is the problem that
> metadata isn't written to disk occasionally? I was on 3.6.6 when that
> happened, now on 3.6.8, so very recent.

I am not sure this is xfs specific ... I think I've had this problem on 
ext3 in the 3.x (x >= 5) region ... though I am trying to disambiguate 
this from an mdadm 3.2.6 bug.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-08 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-06  8:51 XFS write cache flush policy Lin Li
2012-12-08 19:29 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-08 19:40   ` Michael Monnerie
2012-12-08 19:51     ` Joe Landman [this message]
2012-12-08 19:53     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-09  7:19       ` Lin Li
2012-12-10  1:01       ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-10 20:14     ` Michael Monnerie
2012-12-10  0:58   ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-10  9:12     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-10 20:54       ` Eric Sandeen
2012-12-10 21:45         ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-11  0:25           ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-10  0:45 ` Dave Chinner

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