XFS Kernel 2.6.27.7 oopses

[Ralf Liebenow]

Hello !

Here are my mount settings:

cat  /proc/self/mounts

..
/dev/sdc1 /backup xfs rw,nobarrier,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,noquota 0 0

This is my current setting, but it also happend before i changed the
settings. Before I had it with this:

/dev/sdc1 /backup xfs rw,noquota 0 0

The problem occured independently of the settings i changed.

Shall I try to set ikeep/noikeep (whats the default for that ?).

At the moment I have no time to create a minimum Script to
reproduce, but essentially I do the following:
  - I have a tree with about 2 million files in it called daily.1
  - I create a new tree daily.0 with rsync --link-dest=daily.1
    so that the most (the unchanged ones) of those million files 
    just get hardlinked to the ones in daily.1 and only the
    changed ones are created newly.
  - every day daily.1 gets renamed daily.2 and daily.0 gets
    renamed daily.1 (currently I have rotated to daily.14)
    The oldest daily.X folder gets removed by "rm -rf" which
    is where the oops sometimes (not every time, but often
    enough to reproduce) happens.

So the setting is: I have about 2 million files, and most of
them are multip hardlinked, so i have about > 20 million Inodes
on this system. Every night about 2 million of those inodes
get removed, most of them pointing to files which have other
hardlinks and therefore are not really removed.

> How long does it take to reproduce the problem?

On my system I just need to make a new rsync and remove
some million files/hardlinks, but it take some hours until it happens.
Somtimes it even runs successfully through ...

As I said before an xfs_check/xfs_repair does not detect any
incosistencies after the problem happend. ( But the rm process
hangs and the filesystem cannot be umounted any more )

I need to see, if the problem is with the massive hardlinking,
or if it just can be reproduced by creating 20 million files,
and remove them in one sweep ... I will check it, when i have
the time.

  Greets
    Ralf

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:38:47AM +0100, Ralf Liebenow wrote:
> > Hello !
> > 
> > Finally I found the time to compile and test the latest stable 2.6.28.3 kernel
> > but I can reproduce it:
> 
> OK.
> 
> .....
> 
> > Hmmm ... can I do something to help you find the problem ? I can
> > reproduce it by creating some millon of hardlinks to files and then remove some
> > million hardlinks with one "rm -rf"
> 
> Interesting. Sounds like a race between writing back the inode and
> it being freed. How long does it take to reproduce the problem?
> Do you have a script that you could share?
> 
> Next question - what is the setting of ikeep/noikeep in your mount
> options? If you dump /proc/self/mounts on 2.6.28 it will tell us
> if inode clusters are being deleted or not....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david at fromorbit.com
> 
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