On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:19:51AM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
>> Have you successfully used xfs on this box with older kernels, or is
>> this a new filesystem? Was this the first mount under 2.6.4-mm1?
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:30:54AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> This would be useful to know.
I created it first with 2.6.3-mm4.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:30:54AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> Attached is a test program thats been used to exercise log
> recovery in a more user-friendly fashion. It uses the xfs
> forced-shutdown mode to get a dirty log without having to
> pull the plug. So, generate traffic, shutdown, unmount, &
> then the next mount will do log recovery. If you find the
> right traffic to generate a reproducible failure, diagnosing
> this becomes a whole lot easier. There's other tools for
> generating all manner of different types of traffic in the
> xfstests directory in the xfs userspace cvs too - fsstress
> is a good one for generating lots of metadata operations.
Well, it sort of crapped itself in the midst of doing large
recovery ops, so I think marking it dirty and replaying nothing
won't fly, but pulling the plug in the midst of fsstress sounds
like a good bet.
-- wli
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