A while back (2004) there was some discussion about problems with XFS
and iSCSI.
I wondered whether the issues had been fixed in later kernels, or whether
there is an underlying issue that will not go away.
We have been using XFS for our mailstore both on local disks and on ATA
Over Ethernet to a CORAID box with no problem.
We want to replace the CORAID with a Sun Storage 7410 box, using iSCSI
instead of AOE.
When I create an ext3 volume on the Sun, things are OK.
When I create an XFS volume, after doing mkdir, I get e.g.
kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'iscsi-rx',
page c1069a20)
kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'syslogd',
page c1069a20)
Scientific Linux SL release 4.6
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL from kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL.src.rpm
includes scsi_transport_iscsi.ko,iscsi_sfnet.ko
kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-78.0.17.ELsmp-0.4-1 from xfs-0.4-1.src.rpm
iscsi-initiator-utils-4.0.3.0-6
Also seen on:
Scientific Linux SL release 4.5
kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL.i686
kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-55.0.6.ELsmp-0.1-1.i686
SL is basically the same as CENTOS (compiled from RHEL GPL'd sources)
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