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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>, Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-based kernel failing xfstests xfs/182 -- resolved, I think
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 15:57:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <519404E6.5010502@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519176E7.8070204@genband.com>

On 05/13/2013 05:27 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an embedded system running a 2.6.27-based kernel.
>
> I'm digging into some intermittent xfs corruption issues. Yes, I realize
> the right answer is probably to upgrade, but for the usual embedded
> reasons that's tricky.
>
> I'm seeing test xfs/182 fail with 40 or so files showing messages like:
>
> file /opt/xfstest2/960 has incorrect size - sync failed
>
> In our case the xfs filesystems used for testing are on top of lvm,
> which is in turn on top of two SAS drives in RAID1.
>
> Any suggestions on where I should start looking? I'm looking at the
> "do_sync() and XFSQA test 182 failures...." thread on the mailing list
> from 2008, can someone point me to the commit that eventually resulted
> from that?

I think I may have figured it out.

I assume this was part of the impetus for the patch series from Jan Kara 
starting with "[PATCH 0/8] Sync fixes and cleanups (version 4)" that 
went into 2.6.31.

Thanks,
Chris

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-15 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-13 23:27 2.6.27-based kernel failing xfstests xfs/182 Chris Friesen
2013-05-14  0:45 ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-15 21:57 ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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