Re: non-standard errno: -990

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:37:13PM +0200, 
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:09:48PM -0400,
> > Andrew Klaassen wrote:
> 
> > > I'm getting errors like this with a 2.4.7 XFS patched kernel:
> > > 
> > >   kernel: nfsd: non-standard errno: -990
> > > 
> > > This isn't something I'd worry about normally, but just a few
> > > minutes ago a programmer told me that he got a "990" error when
> > > trying to create a directory on the same XFS filesystem - and it
> > > *wasn't* over nfs.  I haven't been able to find any info via
> > > google.
> 
> > -990 is EFSCORRUPTED which XFS generates when it sees an nasty
> > error internally. You should probably have an error message
> > somewhere earlier in the logs.
> 
> One of these, maybe?
> 
>   kernel: XFS: bad magic number
>   kernel: XFS: SB validate failed

Well, both of these will result in a failed mount, so this is not the
same filesystem. Also, if you get the 990 error, the filesystem should
no longer be accessible, so something else is going on here.

Steve

> 
> They showed up just after the filesystem was mounted.  I can't
> spot anything else that seems to be relevant.
> 
> The filesystem is still up and running, BTW, and doesn't seem to
> be adversely affected.  The error has only occured twice, both
> times today.  It's running on top of RAID 5, if that's of
> interest.
> 
> Any suggested course of action?  This is, unfortunately, a
> woefully undertested production drive...
> 
> Andrew Klaassen