xfs_log_force: error 5 returend

[Eric Sandeen]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Also, just to be semantically correct, it's unlikely that this was a
"server crash" - most likely you got an IO error, xfs noticed it, and
shut itself down for safety.

-Eric