Re: Subject : Happened again, 20140811 -- Got "Internal error XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO". Filesystem needs reformatting to correct issue.

Carlos E. R.
2014-08-13T00:08:05Z

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On Wednesday, 2014-08-13 at 09:16 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:

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> Well, the sync is necessary for hibernate - it needs to shrink the
> amount of memory that is saved to disk to as small as possible. If
> your memory is full of dirty page cache, why would you save that to
> the hibernate image, only to have to load it back off, then write it
> to the filesystem after resume? Why wouldn't you write it straight
> to disk before hibernation, then remove it from memory so you've
> then got free memory to allocate the hibernation image that gets
> written to disk?

You can see that this happens by looking at the output of "free" before
and after hibernation. Even issuing the command after getting the desktop
back, I can see a big difference (the ammount of buffers and cache).

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

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