From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030253AbWGTK3G (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:29:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030264AbWGTK3G (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:29:06 -0400 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:51656 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030253AbWGTK3F (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:29:05 -0400 Subject: Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1 From: Kasper Sandberg To: Nathan Scott Cc: Alistair John Strachan , Torsten Landschoff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20060720085636.D1947140@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> References: <20060718222941.GA3801@stargate.galaxy> <20060719085731.C1935136@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <200607190908.30727.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060720085636.D1947140@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:29:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1153391342.31822.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:56 +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:08:30AM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 23:57, Nathan Scott wrote: > > [snip] > > > > of programs fail in mysterious ways. I tried to recover using xfs_repair > > > > but I feel that my partition is thorougly borked. Of course no data was > > > > lost due to backups but still I'd like this bug to be fixed ;-) > > > > > > 2.6.18-rc1 should be fine (contains the corruption fix). Did you > > > mkfs and restore? Or at least get a full repair run? If you did, > > > and you still see issues in .18-rc1, please let me know asap. > > > > Just out of interest, I've got a few XFS volumes that were created 24 months > > ago on a machine that I upgraded to 2.6.17 about a month ago. I haven't seen > > any crashes so far. > > > > Assuming I get the newest XFS repair tools on there, what's the disadvantage > > of repairing versus creating a new filesystem? What special circumstances are > > required to cause a crash? > > There should be no disadvantage to repairing. I will update the FAQ > shortly to describe all the details of the problem, recommendations > on how to address it, which kernel version is affected, etc. this FAQ, is it this: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#dir2 ? (btw, it seems that while only in the TOC once, you have the same about 2.6.17 twice..).. which version of xfsprogs should i use while doing the xfs_check ? > > cheers. >