Problems with kernel 3.6.x (vm ?) (was : Is kernel 3.6.1 or filestreams option toxic ?)

Yann Dupont Yann.Dupont at univ-nantes.fr
Mon Oct 29 03:11:26 CDT 2012


Le 29/10/2012 02:25, Dave Chinner a écrit :
> I can't reproduce this with a similar setup but using KVM (i.e. 
> killing the VM instead of power cycling) or forcing a shutdown of the 
> filesystem without flushing the log. The second case is very much the 
> same as power cycling, but without the potential "power failure caused 
> partial IOs to be written" problem. The only thing I can see in the 
> logprint that I haven't seen so far in my testing is that your log 
> print indicates a checkpoint that wraps the end of the log. I haven't 
> yet hit that situation by chance, so I'll keep trying to see if that's 
> the case that is causing the problem.... Cheers, Dave. 

Ok, is your kvm guest was lvm enabled ?

I'll try to recrash the FS, this time I'll make an image of it on 
another machine for further testings. And I'll supply a usefull logprint

Cheers,

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