Patrick,
I had the same problem on two machines with XFS. Both slackware-current
machines. The kernel on the Dell GX1 was built with GCC-3.4.2 and on my
main box was GCC-3.4.3.
There seems to be a bug in XFS with some configurations of 2.6.9 and
2.6.10-rc series.
After re-installing Slackware-10.0 and upgrading to -current, I have
installed 2.6.10-rc3 and so far, I have not been able to reproduce the
problem.
Some questions for you:
1] What kernel are you running?
2] What did you last change before you started getting these errors?
As far as severity goes, I ran XFS' fsck from a KNOPPIX CD and as a
result, I had about 500-600mb of files in my /lost+found directory when
it was finished. Files were missing from all parts of the file system.
I had to restore from backup. I would say stick with your previous
2.6.9 configuration (if you were running it) or go back to 2.6.8.1, some
2.6.9 configurations and 2.6.10-rc1 and/or 2.6.10-rc2 definitely cause
file corruption with XFS. So far, however, I have not been able to
reproduce the error with 2.6.10-rc3.
Justin.
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 4:15 PM
To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Unknown Issue.
Hi,
I've got a computer running gentoo, on a clean install where i've got
an odd problem :
after a while, the computer refuses to spawn processes anymore :
-/bin/bash: /bin/ps: Input/output error
-/bin/bash: /usr/bin/w: Input/output error
-/bin/bash: /bin/df: Input/output error
-/bin/bash: /bin/mount: Input/output error