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Re: xfs_force_shutdown called from line 1042 of xfs_trans.c

To: Ionut Georgescu <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfs_force_shutdown called from line 1042 of xfs_trans.c
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 28 Oct 2002 11:00:02 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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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
> 
> 
> -- 
> ***************
> * 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."
> 
-- 
Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.         651-683-3102


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