Re: XFS exploding on 2.4.26 out of nowhere

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 11:26, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:

> XFS just decided out of the blue it was hosed.  This has been reported
> on this list a number of times, normally with NFS involved.  But this
> filesystem was not exported with NFS, it was simply running bonnie,
> memtest.sh, and dd md0 all at once.  That's not even a remarkable I/O
> load, and it was less than 1 hour of this load before failure.

are you dd'ing from the same device you're running bonnie on?  Accessing
the underlying device for a mounted filesystem (yes, even just reading)
is known to cause corruptions on the mounted filesystem.

Christoph has been looking into this...

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