[xfs-masters] [Bug 860] XFS filesystem crash

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http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=860





--- Comment #7 from Eric Sandeen <sandeen-xfs at sandeen.net>  2010-01-15 17:58:08 CST ---
(In reply to comment #5)

> I delayed replying till I tested this. Indeed, mounting "nobarrier" avoids the
> issue. I have replayed at least 12 times on 4 filesystems the operation that
> caused the problem before (took 5 hours running), and it did not reproduce.
> Thanks!

Note that with nobarrier, you are exposed to filesystem corruption if you have
volatile write caches on your storage; that was a test, not a solution.  :)

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