Hi Ionut -
Unfortunately you're not the only one, please see:
http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186
The good news is that this seems to be fairly repeatable, and we should
be able to find a fix for it... as soon as we can get some resources on
the problem.
-Eric
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 10:54, Ionut Georgescu wrote:
> 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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> * Ionut Georgescu
> * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/
> * Registered Linux User #244479
> *
> * "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix you
> * can do anything the computer is able to do."
>
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