Re: XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1163 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:50:06PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 13:28 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 13:08 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: 
> > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:27:09AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >
> > > > Linux transit5.news.xs4all.nl 2.6.25.6 #1 SMP Wed Jun 11 10:59:10 CEST
> > > > 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > > > 
> > > > Filesystem "sda4": XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1163 of
> > > > file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c.  Caller 0xffffffff880f1315
> > > > Pid: 3402, comm: diablo Not tainted 2.6.25.6 #1
> > > 
> > > This commit in 2.6.26 will probably fix it.
> > > 
> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=75de2a91c98a6f486f261c1367fe59f5583e15a3
> > 
> > "At ENOSPC, we can get a filesystem shutdown due to a cancelling a dirty
> > transaction in xfs_mkdir or xfs_create."
> > 
> > But The filesystem is only used for 35%. It might have hit 100% somewhere in
> > the recent past though (a few reboots ago).
> > I've applied the patch to 2.6.25.6 just in case, I'll let it run over
> > the weekend to see what happens.
> 
> Well, the box has been up for 3 days now. When this problem first
> appeared it only stayed up for a day max, so I'm reasonably positive
> it's fixed.

Cool.

> The patch applies cleanly to 2.6.25.6 - perhaps it should go into
> -stable.

For a bug that's been around for more than 3 years and reported by
only a handful of ppl? I'd prefer not to....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com