Eric Sandeen wrote:
heh, thanks Mark. Even though it's only CORRUPTION ON ARM I guess the
shouting worked. :)
Well, we're dealing with apparent insidious corruption after
failed btree AG allocations (which aren't supposed to fail).
This seems to stem from the fixes for the ENOSPC deadlock bugs
(two years ago, see below). you and Nathan probably remember
this ..?
Timothy Shimmin wrote:
Okay some history in xfs-dev archives on this bug...
plenty of reading here :)
Reverse chronological order with initial report from
guy at NEC:
May 2006
Review thread b/w Nathan and Ying Ping:
http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200605/msg00128.html
April 2006
Thread - dgc, Ying, nathan
http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200604/msg00005.html
March 2006 - 2 threads
http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200603/msg00002.html
http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200603/msg00140.html
Feb 2006
http://ils.corp.sgi.com/Archives/xfs-dev/200602/msg00062.html
Initial report and suggested test case by Asano Masahiro - NEC
(fwd'ed by Eric).
Plenty of commentary by Asano.
Thread - including comments by Steve Lord:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.xfs.general/13268
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