Hi,
our server has experienced a pretty bad crash (from the users' point of view)
today, after less then 10 hours uptime:
Oct 28 10:28:04 flood kernel: xfs_force_shutdown(sd(8,17),0x8) called from line
1042 of file xfs_trans.c. Return address = 0xc01b2a55
The box:
* software:
# kernel from the CVS (just checked out yesterday, 27.10.2002) compiled with
HIGHMEM = 4GB
# Debian stable -> gcc 2.95.4
* hardware:
# AthlonMP (1 CPU) with AMD 760MPX chipset and 1 GB RAM
# 7 SCSI disks on 2 Adaptec controlers: one system disk, one is
exported over NFS, and the other 5 make up a SoftRAID 5 device. The
raid device (md0) is not used yet.
The shutdown filesystem was the NFS exported one. Unfortunately I can't
remember what version of mkfs.xfs I had formatted it with. (I remember
there were some issues about 6 months ago).
What I had in mind was to reformat the disk with the latest version of
xfsprogs. Does this make sense ?
I have also read on this list about Andrea's kernels, which have XFS
and some pretty important VM patches included (according to
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=101857274727754&w=2
)
What would you suggest ? I have a very good experience with XFS on
some workstations, but none with XFS on a server.
Thanks a lot,
Ionut
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