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From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS strangeness, xfs_db out of memory
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:37:23 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041029073723.GH1246@frodo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410240857.31893.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:57:26AM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was testing a tiny script on top of xfs_fsr to show fragmentation and the 
> resultss of defragmentation.  As a result of fine tuning the output I ran the 
> script repeatedly and suddenly got error from find (unknown error 999 if my 
> memory serves me. It scrolled off the screen).
> ...
> xfs_info $dev
> xfs_db -r $dev -c "frag -v"

This is accessing the device while the filesystem is mounted,
in older kernels (like the one you have) that would cause the
above corruption error in XFS - thats resolved now.

As to the IDE error you saw, I'm not sure how fatal that is.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-29  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-24  6:57 XFS strangeness, xfs_db out of memory Robin Rosenberg
2004-10-24 11:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-10-24 21:05   ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-10-29  7:37 ` Nathan Scott [this message]
2004-10-31 16:58   ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-10-31 22:51     ` Nathan Scott

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