On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 00:05, Soumen Chakrabarti wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, 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.
> >
> > Ok, for starters, i don't think we shipped patches specifically
> > for xfs 1.3.1 + kernel 2.4.22, and the patches we did ship for 2.4.21
> > do not apply cleanly to 2.4.22.
>
> I downloaded the patch around 10/15, from this URL:
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/patches/2.4.22
> which seems to indicate that even on that date, there was a patch
> available for 2.4.22 (maybe I looked where I should not). Today
> (11/28), I can't even find a patch for 2.4.21 (at least not by moving up
> to the parent dir ...patches/).
Ah, ok. That is a snapshot patch, as indicated by the README - it's not
XFS 1.3.1. That's fine, at least now I know what you're running.
> Some other people seem to have confirmed in the meantime that the
> problem shown by bonnie on 2.4.22 + 1.3.1 is a real one.
I think it's also been shown that using the "ikeep" mount option will
take care of this? Looks like it has something to do with the unused
inode reclamation path.
http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=284
Can you verify that this workaround fixes the problem for you?
-Eric
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