Subject: Re: shutting down f/s
From: David Rousseau <drousseau@techmetrix.net>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
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Date: 04 Oct 2001 16:21:07 +0200
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le jeu 04-10-2001 at 16:09 Eric Sandeen a écrit :
> We've been seeing a couple people with this lately... it's probably not
> a memory problem, it may be an underlying XFS problem.
I had this problem on machine with the red hat kernel (2.4.2 and 2.4.3
RPMs, ac tree) but never on machines running under linux-2.4-xfs cvs
version (linus tree). Can be an interaction with the several patch
applied by red hat people and xFS patch ?

> xfs_repair may "fix" the problem, but it's throwing the baby out with
> the bath water, as they say... You're running xfs_repair on a filesystem
> with a dirty log, which is not so good.
xfs_repair resolved all problems for me.
 
> I have a patch that spits out some more information on the way to
> _xfs_force_shutdown, if anyone is reliably hitting this error and would
> be willing to try it again with the patch, please let me know.
why not integrate it in linux-2.4-xfs tree ? verbose error message are
good.

-David

sorry for my poor english, I'm french...
a polyglot who speak several language is an european and
a polyglot who speak only one language is french