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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
To: "Piszcz, Justin Michael" <justin.piszcz@mitretek.org>
Cc: Patrick <nawtyness@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"Kristofer T. Karas" <ktk@enterprise.bidmc.harvard.edu>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Unknown Issue.
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:50:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41BDD659.9070500@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2E314DE03538984BA5634F12115B3A4E01BC4179@email1.mitretek.org>

Piszcz, Justin Michael wrote:

> Ah, good question, yes I used xfs_repair, at this point I knew I had to
> restore from backup and answered "y" to all questions.  I am not sure
> but I do not recall the log being dirty.

Hm, xfs_repair does not ask any questions.

> In the logs on my main machine, it showed the following when it
> attempted to mount the two filesystems (root and boot, /dev/hde4 and
> /dev/hde1 respectively).

> Dec  5 08:23:53 jpiszcz kernel: XFS internal error
> XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO at line 1583 of file fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c.  Caller
> 0xc021de57
(having trouble replaying the log here)

Ok, so XVM has found something wrong at this point.  Any chance the box 
had a power failure?  Write caches on ide drives can wreak havoc with 
journaling filesystems...  i.e. what happened between "the filesystem 
was working" and "i remounted the filesystem and got this"

>
> As far as bad disk/memory, I have tested both systems with memtest86 and
> the result was 0 errors, as far as the disks go, I have not experienced
> any problems with either of them until I moved to 2.6.9/2.6.10-rc{1,2}.

ok

-Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-13 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-13 17:14 Unknown Issue Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-12-13 17:17 ` Patrick
2004-12-13 17:50 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2004-12-13 17:56   ` Eric Sandeen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-06 13:33 hard__ware
2004-12-13 18:57 Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-12-13 17:20 Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-12-13 17:27 ` Patrick
2004-12-13 13:57 Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-12-13 17:04 ` Eric Sandeen
2004-12-13 17:13   ` Patrick
2004-12-12 21:14 Patrick

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