xfs_log_force: error 5 returend

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:05:48PM +0200, Steffen Knauf wrote:
> hello,
> 
> sometimes, our server crashed with xfs_log_force: error 5.
> It isn't reproducible and a xfs_check / xfs_repair don't find some errors.
> 
> Perhaps it's a bug?  

Error 5 is EIO, and xfs_log_force basically passed the error through
from the underlying device.  Most likely it is an issue with the
underlying storage device.