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Linux 2.4.22 XFS 1.3.1 reservation ran out

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Subject: Linux 2.4.22 XFS 1.3.1 reservation ran out
From: Soumen Chakrabarti <soumen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:43:33 +0530 (IST)
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Repeatable bug, here's how to create the situation:
1. Start with a fresh install of stock RedHat 9.
2. Download kernel 2.4.22.
3. Patch in XFS 1.3.1 and build new kernel.
4. Create an XFS file system and mount it on (say) /mnt/xfs.
5. Download and build bonnie++-1.03a
6. Run bonnie++ with these flags
   bonnie++ -d /mnt/xfs -u 0:0 -s 0 -n 16
   Everything goes fine.  This is a test that creates, stats, and
   deletes 16*1024 empty files.
7. Now up the number of files to 500*1024
   bonnie++ -d /mnt/xfs -u 0:0 -s 0 -n 500
   Here are the syslog entries.

Filesystem "sd(8,17)": xfs_log_write: reservation ran out. Need to up 
reservation
xfs_force_shutdown(sd(8,17),0x8) called from line 1739 of file xfs_log.c.  
Return address = 0xc01f4cdb
Filesystem "sd(8,17)": Corruption of in-memory data detected.  Shutting down 
filesystem: sd(8,17)
Please umount the filesystem, and rectify the problem(s)
xfs_force_shutdown(sd(8,17),0x2) called from line 747 of file xfs_log.c.  
Return address = 0xc01f4cdb

8. You can however recover and mount again:
   umount /mnt/xfs
   mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/xfs

XFS mounting filesystem sd(8,17)
Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sd(8,17) (dev: 8/17)
Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: sd(8,17) (dev: 8/17)

Other info: Not specific to hardware, has been reproduced on two
different servers, one with SCSI, the other with SCSI RAID.

On these same servers,
9.  IBM JFS with this bonnie++ benchmark requires a hard reset.
10. Reiserfs survives repeated bonnie++ tests as above.
Also, on a third server we have XFS 1.2.0 which works fine too.

So XFS 1.3.1 seems heavily implicated.
Thanks for any patches and/or fixes.


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