Hi everyone.
This morning I ran into a problem with xfs_fsr. I ran it on three
machines, and on one machine it gave me file corruption. I got spliced
files. It seems to me only open files were affected. Some ritually
sacrificed chickens, a few arcane and yet unpublished incatations and (I
thank the Gods on my bare knees) backups later, I think I'm OK, except
for maybe a some logfiles.
Anyway, I asked on #XFS, and recompiled a brand new kernel. Same
behaviour. I tried without the binary nvidia driver. Same behaviour.
I haven't done extensive testing, but it seems only SCSI filesystems
were affected. Also, xfs_fsr -v doesn't report it's ignoring open
files. Could it be that xfs_fsr is not detecting open files on SCSI
disks for some reason?
I can provide both a kernel config and hexdumps of a healthy and a
borked logfile on demand. I also tried to file a bugreport, but
bugzilla didn't send me an email with my password.
Please cc me on any communication as I'm not subscribed to the list.
Cheers (I think), Alfred
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Alfred G. de Wijn
Home address: Cambridgelaan 199 k 3, 3584 DZ Utrecht, The Netherlands
e-mail: dwijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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