linux-kernel - Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:06:06 -0400
From:	"Kevin Radloff" <radsaq@...il.com>
To:	"Torsten Landschoff" <torsten@...ian.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1

On 7/18/06, Torsten Landschoff <torsten@...ian.org> wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> I upgraded to 2.6.18-rc1 on sunday, with the following results (taken
> from my /var/log/kern.log), which ultimately led me to reinstall my
> system:
[snip]
> That problem occured during a dist-upgrade, dm-6 is my /usr partition. Funny
> enough this happened a few months after finally replaced my ancient disk
> with a RAID1 array to make sure I do not lose data ;)
>
>
> In any case it seems like the XFS driver in 2.6.18-rc1 is decently broken.
> After booting into 2.6.17 again, I could use /usr again but random files
> contain null bytes, firefox segfaults instead of starting up and a number
> of programs fail in mysterious ways. I tried to recover using xfs_repair
> but I feel that my partition is thorougly borked. Of course no data was
> lost due to backups but still I'd like this bug to be fixed ;-)
>
> If more information from my logs is required, I can make it available (and any
> part of the partition if required).

That looks like the death knell of my /, which succumbed on Friday as
a result (I believe) of the corruption bug that was in 2.6.16/17.
Ironically enough, I also saw the problem during an aptitude upgrade.

Also see this thread:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115070320401919&w=2

-- 
Kevin 'radsaq' Radloff
radsaq@...il.com
http://thesaq.com/
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