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Date:   Sat, 30 Jun 2001 16:20:47 +0200
To: Jurgen Kramer <GTM.Kramer@inter.nl.net>
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Filesystem on XFS partition no longer accessible
  afterwriting
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At 16:20 30-6-2001 +0200, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
>Seth Mos wrote:
>
> > Do you have problems writing or reading from other applications?

What compiler did you use for compiling your kernel?

>Yes, any application writing to the partition makes the partition unusable.
>Reading doesn't give any problems.
>
> >Can you give some statistics about your system and disk configuration?
> > Any used hdpram parameters or mount options?
>
> From the top of my head:
>
>BP6 with dual 500Mhz Celeron / 192MB mem
>HDD on HPT366 controller
>Red Hat 7.0
>kernel 2.4.6pre5-XFS (latest CVS)
>no hdparm parameters of special mount options
>
>N.b. this setup did work for a long time running Linux-XFS from SGI CVS. But
>I didn't use
>this system for a while only updating the kernel from CVS every one and a
>while.

The setup should be ok.

> > It still should work. Can you replicate this with an older kernel?
> > And what kernel are you running now?
>
>I'll check further in a moment. Currently the system is not accessible at
>all.
>As it doesn't have a keyboard or monitor so I have to connect these to see
>what's really happening.

The only think that comes up at the moment is kernel compiled with gcc 
instead of kgcc
You could try checking the fs with xfs_repair to see if something is wrong.

Bye
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.