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 qB8JmoVe052177 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:48:50 -0600 Received: from mail-ie0-f172.google.com (mail-ie0-f172.google.com [209.85.223.172]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id R00i5i7gMrxcNHr1 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:51:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ie0-f172.google.com with SMTP id c13so5242887ieb.31 for ; Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:51:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50C39A2F.8090006@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:51:11 -0500 From: Joe Landman MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS write cache flush policy References: <20121208192927.GA17875@citd.de> <5955806.tSHc7WOiJd@saturn> In-Reply-To: <5955806.tSHc7WOiJd@saturn> 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: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs