Re: XFS strangeness, xfs_db out of memory

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:57:26AM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was testing a tiny script on top of xfs_fsr to show fragmentation and the 
> resultss of defragmentation.  As a result of fine tuning the output I ran the 
> script repeatedly and suddenly got error from find (unknown error 999 if my 
> memory serves me. It scrolled off the screen).
> ...
> xfs_info $dev
> xfs_db -r $dev -c "frag -v"

This is accessing the device while the filesystem is mounted,
in older kernels (like the one you have) that would cause the
above corruption error in XFS - thats resolved now.

As to the IDE error you saw, I'm not sure how fatal that is.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan