Hi there,
First of all I want to say that the following problem
notwithstanding, I have been very happy with linux XFS. I've been
using it successfully for a while now. But I've recently upgraded
some of my hardware, and there might be some issues that cause the
the whole system to crash and burn in the most awful way:
My system is as follows:
Hardware:
AMD Athlon XP 1700 @ 1.4 something GHz
ECS K7S5A Motherboard with the SIS 735 chipset
128 MB of PC133 SDRAM memory
ATI all-in-wonder Rage 128 agp
Two caviar IDE HD
CDROM, DVD,SBLive! sound card.
Sofware:
Linux Slackware 8
2.4.17 kernel with the xfs-2.4.17-all-i386.bz2 and the 2.4.17-1 rml
patch
gcc 2.95.3, used for all compilations
There are 6 different partitions all with XFS installed.
xfree86 4.1.99-5 from cvs with DRI enabled and latest ATI-gatos
drivers
except for some other user software everything else is from the
standard Slackware install.
The problem:
I was just finished installing DRI, and was running glxgears to test
it. Then when I tried to list a directory in one of the xfs
partitions it reported input/output error. I rebooted and the root
filesystem was corrupted beyond repair with the wnsuing kernel panic.
I rebooted using other slackware install on the other disk (this one
very standard, on an ext2 fs, but with the same xfs-capable kernel)
and tried mounting the xfs filesystems on the xfs disk. Three are
damaged beyond repair (one actually seems to appear as an ext3!
filesystem) and the other three are fine. I would chalk this
corruption to some bad interaction between my chipset and the HD's
(I had another XFS corruption trying to set the DMA mode on this same
HD). But trying to mount one of the damaged fs's actually produces a
couple of "unable to handle kernel paging request" errors and the
system just freezes. It seems repeatable, three times I tried
mounting that filesystem and thre three times I got thar fault. Is
this something you guys might want to look more closely? It's been a
long long while since I had any kernel problems, and I just read in
the FAQ that I might first run ksymoops. I will need to fix it some
time soon, though, my wife isn't thrilled that nothing at home seems
to be working these days ;) How should I gather info on this error
before I go and reformat this HD?
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