>
> hi Justin,
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:58:42PM +0000, Justin Cormack wrote:
> > I have been having an acl/attr related problem with xfs
>
> >From reading your mail, this probably isn't an ACL/attr problem,
> but its not clear where the problem might be yet.
>
> > linux 2.4.9+
> > patch-2.4.9-xfs-2001-08-19.bz2
> >
> > I am not exactly sure how it arose. I havent been using acls, and in fact my
> > kernel was not compiled with acl support (and I am not sure it ever has
> > been).
> > I was happily using xfs on one partition that I use for video streaming,
> > until one day I tried to write to it and the machine hung solid. No syslog
> > message on the serial console, nothing at all. This behaviour was
> > consistent.
>
> Can you try building kdb in and getting a stack trace - using the
> 'bt' command - when the machine hangs (and drops into kdb)?
>
> > It also refused to let me create directories, saying permission denied,
> > which
>
> Odd - this suggests a problem in XFS, or the underlying device has
> been marked readonly for some reason (sometimes results in EPERM).
well, it turned out that kdb was compiled in and turned on on that machine,
but it never dropped into it.
And rebuilding the kernel anyway fixed it, even though it was consistent over
reboots. on disk kernel corruption?
Very strange.
The only thing I had done that was at all unusual on that machine was mount
an Irix xfs disk. But that seems unlikely to have anything to do with it.
If it recurs I will post again.
Justin
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