Re: kernel panic on full filesystem

[Dave Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:18:16AM +1000, Scott Fagg wrote:
> 
> Awoke this morning to discover a server unresponsive. OS still running
> but anything involviing a disk read would fail (e.g. login). Kernel
> panic dump on screen and references to xfs_ functions in the info. Only
> hint in /var/log/messages was a problem dereferencing a null pointer.

Do you have a copy of this info? If so, can you post it so we can
try to determine what the problem was?

> Is it conceivable that a full filesystem (not the root filesystem) would
> cause a kernel panic in XFS ? I vaguely recall having this problem once
> before a year or two ago.

It certainly shouldn't.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
R&D Software Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group