Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g113caA21370 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:38:36 -0800 Received: from sgi.com (sgi-too.SGI.COM [204.94.211.39]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g113cWd21347 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:38:32 -0800 Received: from relay1.corp.sgi.com (corp.sgi.com [198.29.75.13]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id SAA04586 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:38:29 -0800 (PST) mail_from (sandeen@sgi.com) Received: from chuckle.americas.sgi.com (sandeen@chuckle.americas.sgi.com [128.162.211.44]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id SAA81373; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:37:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:37:54 -0600 (CST) From: Eric Sandeen X-X-Sender: To: "Yom, Francis" cc: , , Subject: Re: XFS SB Validate error In-Reply-To: <29800F5ABF5EAC42998190CFF1846AA303C8C6@symlab0-srvr1.SYMMETRY.SYMMSYS.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Status: O Content-Length: 614 Lines: 14 On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Yom, Francis wrote: > I have been very happy with XFS and had no problems with it so far. I > have been using this kernel for 2 weeks now, but have been working with > XFS since 2.4.14. Today, while working in my XP VMWare session, I got > an error saying that VMWare could not contact the disk drive. I went to > an X console and checked my syslog and discovered that my /home > partition (3,9) was unmounted my XFS because of a bad superblock. I had > the dreaded SB Validate problem as stated in the FAQ. Were there any messages in the log about a forced filesystem shutdown? -Eric