Re: 2.6.13.2 amd64: XFS: xlog_recover_process_data: bad clientid

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Is the problematic filesystem on the aforementioned flakey driver?
>
> Yes.  Sorry I wasn't clear.  The SATA driver hung (the machine was still
> "up", but with all the root FS inaccessible, I couldn't do much), and
> when I rebooted it, the root FS wouldn't come back.
Well, xfs does assume that if the underlying IO layers tell it that something 
is written, that it is in fact written.  Depending on the level of flakiness in 
your SATA driver, it looks quite possible that you have encountered a SATA bug, 
not an xfs bug.
-Eric