Interesting possible XFS crash condition

[Shawn Usry]

On 10/20/2010 4:27 PM, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:01:00 -0500 vous écriviez:
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>> 2.  I did upgrade the firmware on the controller to a newer version
>> AFTER the issue appeared, hoping this would resolve it.  Same results.
>>
>> At this point I'm leaning toward faulty hardware somewhere.
> Another possibility is a memory problem, possibly making the machine
> crash under heavy load; if most RAM is used as filesystem caching, this
> maybe may lead to apparently xfs related errors. You could try running
> memtest86+ on the system for a couple of hours.
>
Great minds think alike :)  Actually I have indeed already run a 
memtest86+ on the system which completed without a problem.   Loading up 
read/writes on other single disks on the system also doesn't produce a 
problem.  Just this one filesystem ;)     It's a stumper!