On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:13:18AM +0100, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
using ck's preemp big kernel lock?) I got following using a raid0 setup
with xfs. I thought it would be a driver issue, but reformatting to ext3
the stripe array runs now w/o probs for a few days. (xfs crapped out
after a few hours on heavy disk activity.)
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Nov 21 10:10:45 tachyon end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 10480855
Nov 21 10:10:45 tachyon I/O error in filesystem ("md0") meta-data dev
md0 block 0x13fd990 ("xfs_trans_read_buf") error 5 buf count 8192
This looks like your driver passed an error back up to the
filesystem while it was doing metadata IO and XFS chose to
shut it down to prevent further damage. It's unlikely to
be a preempt/xfs problem. Possibly hardware. Did you see
any of those device errors since switching to ext3?
