Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:02:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mnsu.edu ([134.29.1.12]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id hBUK29Ta012386 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:02:09 -0800 Received: from mnsu.edu (j3gum-3.ITS.MNSU.EDU [134.29.32.1]) by mail.mnsu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBUK1tJY009703 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:01:55 -0600 Message-ID: <3FF1D9B3.1040507@mnsu.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:01:55 -0600 From: "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukas Hejtmanek , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS BUG (was Re: 3ware driver broken with 2.4.22/23 ?) References: <20031221112113.GE916@mail.muni.cz> <3FE645E3.30602@rackable.com> <1072503925.27022.222.camel@menion.home> <20031229234902.GL916@mail.muni.cz> <1072742359.21939.2.camel@bubbles.imr-net.com> <20031230193620.GO916@mail.muni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20031230193620.GO916@mail.muni.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 1516 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 2326 Lines: 84 I've just tried your "dd" command on a couple of boxen. Both succeeded. The systems were 1: Disk: IDE System Ram: 256MB CPU: (1) Pentium III (copermine) 1GHz Kernel: Linux version 2.4.23-rc4-xfs XFS: SGI-XFS CVS-2003-11-24_06:00_UTC with ACLs, realtime, no debug enabled 2: Disk: Hardware raid-5, "Adaptec Raid Controller 1.1-3" System Ram: 2GB CPU: (2) Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz -- acting as 4 processors Kernel: Linux version 2.4.23-rc4-xfs XFS: SGI-XFS CVS-2003-11-24_06:00_UTC with ACLs, realtime, no debug enabled -- jeffrey hundstad Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: >Hello, > >that was a discusion about 3ware driver. It has resulted in XFS bug most >probably. > >With kernel 2.4.22 or 2.4.23 (SGI XFS snapshot-2.4.23-2003-12-01_00:33_UTC with >no debug enabled) > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/file_on_xfs_partition bs=448k count=23405 > >lockup whole server. xfs partition on SCSI disc. It happen when file becomes >about 5GB of size. > >First I've discovered it with iozone benchmark and 10GB file.. > >2.4.20 kernel with IDE disc seems to be OK as well as 2.6.0 kernel on the same >configuration as 2.4.23 kernel was. > >On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:59:19PM -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > > >>On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 15:49, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: >> >> >>>On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 09:45:25PM -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> Generally not with such a small rev difference. You could try the >>>>>latest driver, and firmware in the 7.7. The driver source is on the Red >>>>>Hat drivers disk. You should be able to drop in the .c, and .h in >>>>>drivers/scsi, and recompile. >>>>>http://3ware.com/support/download.asp?code=5&id=7.7.0&softtype=Driver&releasenotes=&os=Windows >>>>> >>>>>PS- Personally I'd suspect an XFS bug. Try reiserfs. I've been running >>>>>2.4.23pres, and 2.4.23 on hundreds of 3ware of numerous different types. >>>>> With no issue with the prior firmware release. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>There are a lot of people, running RAID5 3ware's w/ Terrabyte arrays. I >>>>don't want to say it is not an XFS bug, but I find that highly suspect. >>>> >>>> >>>Well, with ext3 parition iozone program finishes OK. So it looks like some XFS >>>bug. >>> >>> >>FWIW have you sent this on to the XFS list? >> >>thanks, >> Joshua >> >> >> >> > > >