From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932560AbWGSW5d (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:57:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932562AbWGSW5d (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:57:33 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:38340 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932560AbWGSW5d (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:57:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:56:36 +1000 From: Nathan Scott To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Torsten Landschoff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1 Message-ID: <20060720085636.D1947140@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> References: <20060718222941.GA3801@stargate.galaxy> <20060719085731.C1935136@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <200607190908.30727.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200607190908.30727.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>; from s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk on Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:08:30AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. cheers. -- Nathan