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Re: XFS strangeness, xfs_db out of memory

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS strangeness, xfs_db out of memory
From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:58:05 +0100
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Friday 29 October 2004 09.37, Nathan Scott wrote:
> 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.

You don't happen to know when or where (patch) this was fixed? I'm usually
using Mandrake stock kernels, so I'm looking for something to attach to a
bug report. I was looking around without luck.

-- robin


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