Re: XFS recovery issues

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

Ash <my_qa2004@xxxxxxxxx> writes:


> After about 5 minutes from the time the threads were
> spawned to build up the load a bit, the machine was
> crashed with a direct power-off.
> This cycle was repeated for about 200 times.

[...]

Did you explicitely turn off the write caches in your hard disks?
Without that it is unlikely that any fs will survive such a test for
long, because it cannot trust the write ordering. 

However the fs arguably should error out later, not hang. 

-Andi