Re: 2.4.2-XFS stability? (was: Re: O_DIRECT buglet)

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

> (I'm on the list now :)
> 
> FYI, still happens on 2.4.3-XFS with xfs_fsr turned off. I'm seeing nfsd
> oops every now and then as well.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 05:06:00PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, fsr does funky stuff, it could be the culprit here. It uses a special
> > call to flip the entent info between two inodes, maybe it has a reference
> > count problem.
> > 
> > Steve
> >
> > [oops snipped]
> >

Yes, this is not fsr, I went and looked at the code, it does interesting
things, but pathnames do not come into it. We do have one other person
reporting dcache related oopses, I suspect there is a hole in the dcache
handling somewhere, it is hairy stuff, this is on the list, just not got
there yet.

Steve