Tony Gale wrote:
> This may account for my test xfs news server not surviving for more
> than a week.
hmm I doubt it... the problem in the elevator right now is a starvation
issue. I hasn't linked to crashes or corruption (yet), just very very long
waits to service
some disk requests.
> But, the filesystem pretty much goes unrecoverable after
> I am forced to reset the box:
This could be related to other issues.
First exactly what version of the XFS tree are you running?
If you are running anything less than current (as of today)
or the XFS_BETA_4 image, please upgrade immediately.
There was a corruption problem in all previous version.
Symptoms of the corruption does sound similar to what
you are describing.
At this point you will need to run xfs_repair to get your
file system back, if repair fails let us know hopefully we
can fix whatever went wrong.
>
> kmem_alloc doing a vmalloc 241488 size & PAGE_SIZE 0 rval=0xf8829000
> Start mounting filesystem: sd(8,17)
> Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sd(8,17) (dev: 8/17)
> cmn_err level 1 Filesystem "sd(8,17)": xfs_inode_recover: Bad inode
> log record, rec ptr 0xf5165fc0, dino ptr 0xf5091d00, dino bp
> 0xe2cb73c0, ino 121654813, total extents = -4746, nblocks = 16
> XFS: log mount/recovery failed
> XFS: log mount failed
> Size 241488 doing a vfree 0xf8829000
>
> Now xfs_check is spewing countless (with the block number increasing):
>
> block 2/195770000 out of range
>
> -tony
>
> On 02-Dec-2000 Russell Cattelan wrote:
> >
> > Yes this is a know problem in the latest 2.4 kernels.
> > It has been observed on other file systems as well not just XFS.
> >
> > I have do have a kernel with Jens elevator patch, that does
> > appear to fix the starvation problem. Unfortunately it appears to
> > either
> > have problems itself or is exposing problems in the XFS code.
> >
> > Currently XFS kiobuf based io causes a lockup that eventually cause
> > the
> > kernel to through an NMI.
> >
> > Non kiobuf io causes pagebuf to panic under heavy load.
> >
> > I got this running late friday and haven't had much
> > of a chance to investigate.
> >
> > Since this is a linux bug we are waiting for the official
> > fix to show up in the linux tree.
> >
> > --
> > Russell Cattelan
> > cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
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