Re: Core dump when mounting disk

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:52:41AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 06:22, Michael Mamone wrote:
> > My system recently locked up while I was compiling a program. My
> > system has two partitions, and the files I was compiling lived on the
> > second partition. When I reboot, the attempt to remount that partition
> > fails with a kernel panic, and any subsequent attempts to mount or
> > call xfs_repair on that disk just hang.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you have just rebooted and run xfs_repair on the block device,
and it hangs, then this points to either a hardware problem or a
device driver bug - the XFS kernel code is not involved at all in
that case.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan