Re: XFS exploding on 2.4.26 out of nowhere

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:26:38AM -0700, 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.

Don't touch the underlying device if XFS is active.  This is know to
cause data corruption.  I have an experimental fix for 2.6 here, I just
need to get rid of a occasional deadlock in there that I'm hitting.

While it's conceptually backportable to 2.4 I doubt marcelo will take
it.

Nathan, Eric:  any good idea how to prominently warn about this?