Re: BUG: XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel in 2.6.27

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Sean Purdy wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Dave Chinner said:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:36:10AM +0100, Sean Purdy wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Further to the discussion (and patching) of an xfs_trans_cancel
> > > issue in June, in kernel < 2.6.26
> > > 
> > > A similar issue came up on one disk of a 4 x 750GiB machine
> > > with a 2.6.24 kernel.  So I installed 2.6.27-6 and gave it another try.
> > > But I'm still seeing the same problem.  Remounting the drive each time
> > > is fine, and xfs_check shows no errors.
> > 
> > 2.6.27-6? You mean 2.6.27-rc6?
> 
> I meant rc9 as it happens, but never mind.
>  
> > Anyway, you need to try this patch:
> > 
> > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-10/msg00105.html
> > 
> > which I posted a few days ago that fixes the latest reproducable
> > case of this shutdown that I know of.
> 
> This patch worked fine, thanks very much!

Great. It's good to know that mutliple people إve been hitting
this specific problem.

> Can we get it into
> some stable version of 2.6.27?  Maybe I can put in a bug request
> for the next Ubuntu kernel.

We haven't pushed it upstream for .28-rc1 yet as it is still being
QA'd. Once it is pushed we can consider it for .27-stable.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com