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

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Date:	Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:56:36 +1000
From:	Nathan Scott <nathans@....com>
To:	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>
Cc:	Torsten Landschoff <torsten@...ian.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:08:30AM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 23:57, Nathan Scott wrote:
> [snip]
> > > 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 ;-)
> >
> > 2.6.18-rc1 should be fine (contains the corruption fix).  Did you
> > mkfs and restore?  Or at least get a full repair run?  If you did,
> > and you still see issues in .18-rc1, please let me know asap.
> 
> Just out of interest, I've got a few XFS volumes that were created 24 months 
> ago on a machine that I upgraded to 2.6.17 about a month ago. I haven't seen 
> any crashes so far.
> 
> Assuming I get the newest XFS repair tools on there, what's the disadvantage 
> of repairing versus creating a new filesystem? What special circumstances are 
> required to cause a crash?

There should be no disadvantage to repairing.  I will update the FAQ
shortly to describe all the details of the problem, recommendations
on how to address it, which kernel version is affected, etc.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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