Debugging file truncation problem

[Dave Chinner]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 06:51:39PM -0700, Ling Ho wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to debug a problem that has bugged us for the last few months.
> 
> We have set up a large storage system using GlusterFS, and XFS
> underneath it. We have 5 RHEL6.2 servers (running
> 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 when problem last occurred), with LSI
> 9285-8e Raid Controller with Battery Backup Unit. System memory is
> 48GB.

Perhaps you should report the problem to your RedHat support
engineer and tell them to raise a bug - it's entire possible that
the RH kernel needs this fix:

be4f1ac xfs: log all dirty inodes in xfs_fs_sync_fs

Cheers,

Dave.

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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com