Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thompsk.student.earlham.edu (thompsk.student.earlham.edu [159.28.164.194]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7QJ3b9D032757 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:03:37 -0700 Received: by thompsk.student.earlham.edu (Postfix, from userid 502) id 8D72A35CD250; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:07:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:07:00 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Locking problems Message-ID: <20020826190700.GB1894@thompsk.student.earlham.edu> Reply-To: Skylar Thompson Mail-Followup-To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <1030377163.28487.16.camel@itspec.amoa.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1030377163.28487.16.camel@itspec.amoa.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Sender: "Skylar Thompson" X-Accept-Primary-Language: en X-Accept-Secondary-Language: es X-Accept-Tertiary-Language: Quenya SMTP-Mailing-Host: thompsk.student.earlham.edu X-System: Dual 450MHz Xeons with 256MB PC100 ECC-SDRAM X-Machine: IBM Intellistation Z Pro 6865-22U X-Operating-System: Red Hat Linux 7.2 with kernel 2.4.18-grsec Organization: League of Morgoth X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Mar 26 2002 21:28:16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 25 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: skylar@attglobal.net Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:52:43AM -0500, Chris Tooley wrote: > > We're running a point of sale system on Linux and have put the data on > an XFS partition. Unfortunately there has been consistent corruption of > the data during writes to the database. Since the database is an ISAM > database, it's all stored in files that are opened and closed a lot. > The vendor of the point of sale is blaming XFS for the corruption. The > application is an old COBOL app that is using the binary compatability > modules to run. Are there any known problems with corruption when using > these binary compatability libraries with 1.1? Are you using IDE drives? I know there are problems with some IDE drives caching data incorrectly, which causes corruption in the event of a power failure. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@attglobal.net) -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9anxUYyzijMrwBxERAmEZAJ9DWcmS9BwJ+3Eev0bAxwsYbs+nGwCgi2h0 frlaiUyM1pkT+yvnu/GqRqA= =R66B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----