On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:43:33AM +0530, Soumen Chakrabarti wrote:
> Repeatable bug, here's how to create the situation:
> 1. Start with a fresh install of stock RedHat 9.
> 2. Download kernel 2.4.22.
> 3. Patch in XFS 1.3.1 and build new kernel.
Would you like retrying with a rawhide 2.4.22 kernel and XFS 1.3.0?
http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/name/kernel-bleeding/
http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/name/xfs/
Thanks.
> 4. Create an XFS file system and mount it on (say) /mnt/xfs.
> 5. Download and build bonnie++-1.03a
> 6. Run bonnie++ with these flags
> bonnie++ -d /mnt/xfs -u 0:0 -s 0 -n 16
> Everything goes fine. This is a test that creates, stats, and
> deletes 16*1024 empty files.
> 7. Now up the number of files to 500*1024
> bonnie++ -d /mnt/xfs -u 0:0 -s 0 -n 500
> Here are the syslog entries.
>
> Filesystem "sd(8,17)": xfs_log_write: reservation ran out. Need to up
> reservation
> xfs_force_shutdown(sd(8,17),0x8) called from line 1739 of file xfs_log.c.
> Return address = 0xc01f4cdb
> Filesystem "sd(8,17)": Corruption of in-memory data detected. Shutting down
> filesystem: sd(8,17)
> Please umount the filesystem, and rectify the problem(s)
> xfs_force_shutdown(sd(8,17),0x2) called from line 747 of file xfs_log.c.
> Return address = 0xc01f4cdb
>
> 8. You can however recover and mount again:
> umount /mnt/xfs
> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/xfs
>
> XFS mounting filesystem sd(8,17)
> Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sd(8,17) (dev: 8/17)
> Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: sd(8,17) (dev: 8/17)
>
> Other info: Not specific to hardware, has been reproduced on two
> different servers, one with SCSI, the other with SCSI RAID.
>
> On these same servers,
> 9. IBM JFS with this bonnie++ benchmark requires a hard reset.
> 10. Reiserfs survives repeated bonnie++ tests as above.
> Also, on a third server we have XFS 1.2.0 which works fine too.
>
> So XFS 1.3.1 seems heavily implicated.
> Thanks for any patches and/or fixes.
>
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