Re: XFS corruptions

Darrick J. Wong
2015-11-30T22:04:32Z

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 08:51:12AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 04:51:57PM +0000, Sandeep Patel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have multiple 22 disk raid 6 arrays using LSI 9280-24i4e raid
> > cards, all using enterprise grade drives. The array is setup with
> > physical drive cache disabled and mounted using inode64 with
> > nobarriers option in Oracle Linux Server release 6.6, kernel
> > version 3.8.13-55.1.5.el6uek.x86_64. We are suffering from
> > corruptions with xfs_repair unable to permanently fix the the
> > issues. Output of dmesg from the latest corruption.
> >
> > Pid: 5319, comm: glusterfsd Not tainted 3.8.13-55.1.5.el6uek.x86_64 #2
>
> FYI, we cannot really support vendor enterprise on the upstream lists
> because the code base is so different from vanilla/upstream kernels.
> I same exactly the same thing for bugs reported on RHEL/CentOS
> kernels, and for SLES kernels - only the vendor can properly support
> their own franken-kernels...
>
> Hence I'd suggest that you report the problem to your Oracle support
> contact so they can walk you through the process of finding the
> problem....
>
> [ Darrick is really going to thank me for saying this. ]

Probably what I'd have written anyway. :)

Oracle support might just tell you to upgrade the kernel whatever the
latest is. 3.8.13-55 is pretty far back AFAIK.

(Is not a support engineer, nor do I play one on TV.)

--D

>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com
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