Re: XFS force shutdown : EFSCORRUPTED

["Hiroyuki Nakano" <nakano@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp>]

Hi Steve,

I wanted to confirm XFS commands are executed to normaly
on mounted device. So I tried to access to mounted device.
Now I see commands are no problem to executed on mounted
device.

Thanks a lot.

-nak


> 
> I happened to be sitting next to another filesystem developer
> when I read this, and he remembered an old ext2 race condition.
> I think I understand what is happening - and how to fix it, the
> only problem is that fixing it will potentially be a major
> performance issue - so the question is, why do you need this to
> work? Would a solution which disallowed block access to the
> device when it was mounted be sufficient, or do you really 
> want to look at metadata live via the block device. The
> xfsdump program does not need this, the only thing which does
> is running xfs_db on a live filesystem, but that is not really
> of use to anyone but developers.
> 
> Steve
>