XFS/driver bug or bad drive?

[Michael-John Turner]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:57:04AM -0500, David Engel wrote:
> I agree it shouldn't be an xfs bug.  I thought it was strange, though,
> that the problem only seemed to show up with xfs on 2.6.30.x.  IO
> pattern sensitivity wouldn't surprise me, but I wanted to check all my
> bases before giving up on the drive.

Rather curiously, I had exactly the same issue with the same model drive
this past weekend. Debian-patched 2.6.26 kernel, however, though also with
XFS (on top of md/LVM). Interestingly, there were no SMART errors and a
full SMART test passed. The error was triggered by doing a cvs update on my
working copy of the NetBSD source tree - not a large copy, but a
disk-intensive activity.

-mj
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