On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Nathan Straz wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:12:39PM -0700, Sebastien Boving wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Nathan Straz wrote:
> > > Do you have any idea what was going on before the crash? I can try to
> > > reproduce this, but I don't see a lot to go on.
> >
> > the box is doing only nfs serving, and traffic is currently close to 0. At
> > that point though, i was doing a ftp from another host to this machine,
> > recursively mput'ing data on the xfs filesystem.
> >
> > it's while nfsd was writing a particular directory (or files therein, i
> > can't get passed the dir) that it crashed (segfault), and the first
> > messages is sent appeared in the logs.
>
> That gives me a vague idea of what to try. I'll see what I can do.
something i forgot in case it'd help: the ftp transfer was over gigabit at
about 40mb/s, all files 8mb each, did 100gb total before crashing. No
more than 600 files per dir.
ftpd= vsftpd from RH9.0, v1.1.3 in case that helps.
> > - once i get there (recent rh kernel with 1.2.0), can i mount my 1.3.0pre2
> > created fs with it? or should i mkfs.xfs it before?
>
> You won't have any trouble mounting the file system with any released
> version of XFS. Since you do seem to have some corruption, you'll want
> to run the file system through xfs_repair to try to fix it.
great! i'll do this once the backup is done...
thanks for the help,
-seb.
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