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Re: XFS Shutdown: EINVAL

To: Danny Cox <DCox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS Shutdown: EINVAL
From: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 23 Apr 2002 06:54:22 -0500
Cc: XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <1019560779.1143.18.camel@wiley>
References: <1019560779.1143.18.camel@wiley>
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On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 06:19, Danny Cox wrote:
> Mornin'!
> 
>       I currently have XFS installed on four machines.  Last night, on the
> newest, I had completed the XFS/RH 7.2 install (after much gnashing of
> teeth, see below), and was using rsync to retrieve the copy of /home I
> had saved before upgrading (rsync -avcP).  I tried several times, but
> XFS continued to shutdown on the first write attempt each time. 
> /var/log/messages reported:
> 
>       xfs_inotobp: xfs_imap() returned an error 22 on ide0 (3,65).
> 
> This is indeed the location of /home, on /dev/hdb1, and is a WD 400BB
> (40 GB Caviar).  I looked briefly at the code, and xfs_imap() only has
> one point that could return an error, on an error return from
> xfs_dilocate().  22 is EINVAL, which seems to say that xfs_dilocate
> doesn't like one or more of it's input args.  So, that's the low-level
> insight.  What's it mean at the high level?

I suspect it means a bad inode number in a directory, try running
xfs_check on the filesystem, and xfs_repair -n, or xfs_repair if you
just want to go ahead and attempt to fix it. The oopses you experienced
could be the cause of this.

Steve


> 
>       Note: previously, I was having great difficulty with this installation,
> because I have one of the motherboards (DFI AK75-EC) which can't handle
> the Athlon specific mmx_clear_page() and mmx_copy_page().  It was
> oopsing all over the place.  I recompiled the kernel for i686 (see the
> RH 7.2 release notes), and it seemed fine.  In 20/20 retrospect, I see
> that perhaps I should have blown away /home with mkfs.xfs, and started
> rsync over, as all bets are off.  Sorry, it was late, and I wasn't
> thinking as clearly as I am now <grin>.
> 
>       Thoughts?  Confirmations?  Denials?  Opinions?
> 
>       Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
> medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
> 
> Danny



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