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Re: XFS problem with 2.6.2-rc2

To: "Ingo Juergensmann" <ij@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS problem with 2.6.2-rc2
From: "Ingo Juergensmann" <ij@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:07:44 +0100 (CET)
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Ingo Juergensmann said:

> It happened today during the daily cron runs of updatedb f.e., but happened
> as well during "normal" activity when using the machine.
> When I run xfs_repair several times, the errors are mostly fixed, although
> many files usually get moved to lost+found.

Some addition to that:

# xfs_repair -V
xfs_repair version 2.6.3

# xfs_repair -n -l /dev/hda8 /dev/hdc1
.
.
.
would junk entry "LC_MESSAGES"
entry "LC_MESSAGES" in shortform directory inode 50331874 points to free inode
54526141
would junk entry "LC_MESSAGES"
entry "copyright" in shortform directory inode 33554667 points to free inode
33554708
would junk entry "copyright"

fatal error -- malloc failed in longform_dir2_entry_check (2382892308 bytes)


I think I have no memory problem:

# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       644752 kB
MemFree:         63796 kB
Buffers:         21992 kB
Cached:         278172 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         524244 kB
Inactive:         3180 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       644752 kB
LowFree:         63796 kB
SwapTotal:     1394604 kB
SwapFree:      1394604 kB
Dirty:             436 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         279680 kB
Slab:            44488 kB
Committed_AS:   474984 kB
PageTables:       2016 kB
VmallocTotal:   384988 kB
VmallocUsed:     19448 kB
VmallocChunk:   365456 kB

memtest86 run a whole night as well with no reported error. So, this is
supposed to be a bug within the userland tools, namely xfs_repair. Allocating
2 GB of memory is not very, uhm, modest... ;)

-- 
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      Ingo  \X/    so many.  I stand among them." (D. Haynie)


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