Re: kernel errors when XFS filesystem fills up

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:46:18PM +1000, Scott Fagg wrote:
> 
> One more bit of info , problem occurs on RH8 with 2.4.21-xfs from 8 August. Using standard kernel, not RH kernel.
> 
> On RH7.2 with 2.4.17-xfs from sgi.com , problem does not occur. XFS version in that cause would have been pre Feb-15 2002.

Ah - interesting to know, thanks.

> 
> It does indeed look like it's the ACLs...
> 
> This process seems to trigger it:

Good stuff - I've got it happening locally now and have written a
little script to reproduce it (much like yours), I'll look into it
in more detail tomorrow.

BTW if you're interested, mkfs.xfs -dfile,name=/tmp/foo,size=100m
will do those dd+mkfs steps as one (creates foo as a sparse file
too if /tmp supports that, so its quite quick).

thanks!

-- 
Nathan