Re: XFS pseudo OOPs.

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:41:23AM -0600, Dan Yocum wrote:
> I just took a look at the extra lvm patch (v1.0.7) that Axel has added to 
> his AT kernel.  It's touching fs/buffer.c and fs/super.c as well as 
> [reiser|ext3]/[buffer.c|super.c] but nothing in the xfs tree.  Since two of 

Hmmm.. not sure what patch that is - maybe the VFS locking patch
for LVM snapshots?  If so, its unlikely to be the cause here.

> I'm going to give Jan-Frode's kernel a go and see if it's got the same 
> problem.

Does that mean you have a reliable failure/test case?
If not, could you try to characterise your workloads a
bit for me and maybe we can find a pattern of activity
thats more likely to trigger it.

Any xfs_check/xfs_repair info too?

thanks.

-- 
Nathan