Re: kernel errors when XFS filesystem fills up

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Scott Fagg wrote:

> 
> I spoke too soon, the problem has resurfaced.
> 
> Not as bad as before. I filled the volume up, got no errors. But at some point after that, quite possibly during an xfs_check or xfs_repair OR deleting large chunks of data the problem resurfaced.
> 
> I fear that it's probably beyond my to fix this ( kernerl filesystem drivers is not one of my strong points ). I'm trying to work out exactly what the error is telling my. What is the implication of XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW vs XFS_ERRLEVEL_HIGH ? ( a google search turned up nothing ).

It works with /proc/sys/fs/xfs/error_level, to determine when more verbose
errors should be printed to the syslog.  /proc/sys/fs/xfs/error_level
works like a volume control - from 0 to 11, with 11 being the noisiest
(i.e. the most information printed for the least severe errors)

There are actually only a few "detents" on the volume control though,
so you won't notice a difference between, say, 4 and 5, currently.

-Eric