Re: Serious XFS crash

[David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:22:48AM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:07:50 +1000 vous écriviez:
> 
> > I'd go and find whatever disk is located at LBA 0xE6DCA-0xE6E2A and
> > replace it - if there are that many repairs needed on it, it's likely
> > to be failing....
> > 
> 
> Oh, it failed  and I changed it. However it's a RAID-5 and though it
> appeared corrected, as you've seen the XFS fs crashed for no apparent
> reason (there was little or no activity at the time of the march 23rd
> crash) later. I was wondering if it could be related, for instance if
> some garbage may have remained hidden somewhere and break it later,
> like a standing nail waiting for someone to step on it...

Yes, entirely possible.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group