From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4311C29E06 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 16:58:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFBB8F8037 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 14:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exprod7og125.obsmtp.com (exprod7og125.obsmtp.com [64.18.2.28]) by cuda.sgi.com with SMTP id cpnFrhEGtPvpLhoM (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 14:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <519404E6.5010502@genband.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 15:57:58 -0600 From: Chris Friesen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.6.27-based kernel failing xfstests xfs/182 -- resolved, I think References: <519176E7.8070204@genband.com> In-Reply-To: <519176E7.8070204@genband.com> 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" Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Ben Myers , Alex Elder , xfs@oss.sgi.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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs