hi,
On Jul 17, 10:46pm, Colin Walters wrote:
> Subject: Re: kernel oops
> Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hmm not sure what we can deduce from this unfortunately, I suspect
> > you ran repair on the filesystem before it had been mounted again.
> > It is a slightly non-obvious issue with repair that it does not
> > replay the log, and if you had replayed the log the chances are that
> > the filesystem would have been almost, if not completely, clean. So
> > the repair output and the crash are probably totally unrelated.
>
> Oh. I indeed didn't realize that. Maybe if the log isn't empty, the
> repair program could issue a warning, or perhaps just replay the log
> itself? I'll be sure to mount the filesystem before doing xfs_repair
> in the future, though.
>
There's a fix going into IRIX to do just this at the moment,
I'll merge it across to the Linux userspace once thats done.
cheers.
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Nathan
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