Re: Need to up reservation ...

[Christian Guggenberger <christian.guggenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:06:24PM -0500, Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I realized that my previous email was on a subject that has been
> discussed on the list long time ago, and the kernel and probably XFS
> version are quite old.
> 
> However, the system is under 'industrial' use with kernel drivers
> specific to the 2.4 kernel, migrating to 2.6 would not be possible
> right now. Also, it has been running fine since 2004, so I was quite
> surprised that a 'bug' came out.
>

IIRC, a hotfix for that problem would be mounting your xfs filesystem(s)
with the "ikeep" mount option. "noikeep" had been the default in 2.4.22
CVS days, which triggered this bug.

cheers.
 - Christian