XFS/driver bug or bad drive?

[Eric Sandeen]

Michael-John Turner wrote:
> 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

Firmware bug?  I still think it can't be an xfs problem, and I'm not 
just trying to be protective of our turf ;)

-Eric