Hi all,
I am using Debian Woody on 2.4.17 that has the following patches:
ACPI 20011218
Preempt-Kernel - Robert Love
RMAP VM - rik van riel - RMAP12a
XFS patch for 2.4.17
The machine is a Compaq Presario Laptop with 1 Gb of RAM and 48 GB
Harddrive with 1.2 P3 processor. I run VMWare Workstation 3.0 with
WinXP and Win2k Guest Os'es.
I have been very happy with XFS and had no problems with it so far. I
have been using this kernel for 2 weeks now, but have been working with
XFS since 2.4.14. Today, while working in my XP VMWare session, I got
an error saying that VMWare could not contact the disk drive. I went to
an X console and checked my syslog and discovered that my /home
partition (3,9) was unmounted my XFS because of a bad superblock. I had
the dreaded SB Validate problem as stated in the FAQ.
I ended up doing an xfs_repair after rebooting in single user mode. I
could not get the log to replay so I ended up doing another xfs_repair
with the -L switch which made me very nervous. Fortunately, my
partition was fixed and I lost no data. Whew! I think I was lucky.
I am posting this to see if anyone might know what could have caused
this and if my kernel's config could have been a culprit. I only wish I
had more information like log info from the xfs_repair to post, but I
don't :-( The only thing I was doing at the time was reading Outlook
mail from within the XP VMWare session.
If this happens again, I will be sure to document this very carefully
to present next time. I am just wondering if this scenario rings any
bells. FWIW, I have found XFS to be extremely reliable. It has saved
my ass a number of times when I have had to do cold reboots.
Many thanks,
Francis
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