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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:59:47 +0200
To: Dave Alden <alden@math.ohio-state.edu>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Kernel oops with XFS and NFS
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At 14:49 21-6-2002 -0400, Dave Alden wrote:
>Hi,
>   Sorry to follup to my own message, but I'm getting extremely desperate.
>I'm now at the point that I can't bring the system up for more than a few
>minutes before it does the oops.  I'm afraid I'm going to be forced to go
>back to EXT3, and once I go back I probably won't get the opportunity to
>try XFS again (please don't take this as a threat, it's just a plea for
>help -- I really, really, really want to stay with XFS, but with 500 users
>breaking down my door I don't know if it will be an option).  Does anyone
>have any suggestions?

If the system oopses really fast after rebooting you may have some file 
system corruption. very slight corruption. You probably won't even have 
lost something but one of the structures might have gotten off for some 
reason which is causing this.

When you do have the opportunity pleased update to a newer kernel. The 1.1 
release from the 7.3 kernel has come a _really_ long way since 2.4.5 (IRC)
If you can upgrade please do so. I had good luck with NFS and a XFS kernel 
(as in decent speed) starting with 2.4.6-pre5 which had numerous important 
fixes in the NFS path. There have been a lot more since that one as well. 
You are just unlucky at the moment that you have not hit that one yet.

Try a clean reboot and then a xfs_repair. This has solved some issues in 
the past. Sorry for the slow response, I have a headache which makes 
pondering hurt.

Cheers

--
Seth
It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.