Re: Need some help with cause of Oops in XFS 1.2

[Steven Dake <sdake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I understand filesystem code quite well, and the particular problem (if 
you would have read the oops) is in the memory management layer.  But 
thanks for your advice.
-steve

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:32:50PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
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> > I suspect the issue wouldn't present itself with a vanilla 2.4.18 + 
> > xfs1.2 tree as it would have already been caught...  And unfortunately I 
> > can't apply to a plain vanilla tree, it must go into this particular 
> > tree for my company to release it...
> > If you have any suggestions on how I could debug, I'd be willing to try 
> > them out.
> > I was really hoping someone had run into this type of problem in the 
> > past and could provide some quick pointers on how I could debug.
> >    
> Maybe get some consultant that knows Linux filesystem code to fix it for
> your company?  I wouldn't expect too much help on a heavily patched
> tree that's not publically available.
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