On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 05:27:35PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an embedded system running a 2.6.27-based kernel.
>
> I'm digging into some intermittent xfs corruption issues. Yes, I
> realize the right answer is probably to upgrade, but for the usual
> embedded reasons that's tricky.
>
> I'm seeing test xfs/182 fail with 40 or so files showing messages like:
>
> file /opt/xfstest2/960 has incorrect size - sync failed
>
> In our case the xfs filesystems used for testing are on top of lvm,
> which is in turn on top of two SAS drives in RAID1.
>
> Any suggestions on where I should start looking? I'm looking at the
> "do_sync() and XFSQA test 182 failures...." thread on the mailing
> list from 2008, can someone point me to the commit that eventually
> resulted from that?
I doubt anyone can pinpoint a fix for you. I'd suggest that you find
the kernel release where the test starts passing, and the work
backwards from there...
Cheers,
Dave.
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