Hi, One of my NFS servers just gave me a nasty surprise that I think it is relevant to tell you about:
Filesystem "dm-1": XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c. Caller 0xffffffff8034b47e Call Trace: [<ffffffff8020b122>] show_trace+0xb2/0x380 [<ffffffff8020b405>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff80327b4c>] xfs_error_report+0x3c/0x50 [<ffffffff803435ae>] xfs_trans_cancel+0x6e/0x130 [<ffffffff8034b47e>] xfs_create+0x5ee/0x6a0 [<ffffffff80356556>] xfs_vn_mknod+0x156/0x2e0 [<ffffffff803566eb>] xfs_vn_create+0xb/0x10 [<ffffffff80284b2c>] vfs_create+0x8c/0xd0 [<ffffffff802e734a>] nfsd_create_v3+0x31a/0x560 [<ffffffff802ec838>] nfsd3_proc_create+0x148/0x170 [<ffffffff802e19f9>] nfsd_dispatch+0xf9/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8049d617>] svc_process+0x437/0x6e0 [<ffffffff802e176d>] nfsd+0x1cd/0x360 [<ffffffff8020ab1c>] child_rip+0xa/0x12 xfs_force_shutdown(dm-1,0x8) called from line 1139 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c. Return address = 0xffffffff80359daa Filesystem "dm-1": Corruption of in-memory data detected. Shutting down filesystem: dm-1 Please umount the filesystem, and rectify the problem(s) nfsd: non-standard errno: 5 nfsd: non-standard errno: 5 nfsd: non-standard errno: 5 nfsd: non-standard errno: 5 nfsd: non-standard errno: 5 (the above message repeates 1670 times, then the following) xfs_force_shutdown(dm-1,0x1) called from line 424 of file fs/xfs/xfs_rw.c. Return address = 0xffffffff80359daa I unmounted the filesystem, ran xfs_repair which told me to try an mount it first to replay the log, so I did, unmounted it again, ran xfs_repair (which didn't find any problems) and finally mounted it and everything is good - the filesystem seems intact. Filesystem "dm-1": Disabling barriers, not supported with external log device XFS mounting filesystem dm-1 Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: dm-1 (logdev: /dev/Log1/ws22_log) Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: dm-1 (logdev: /dev/Log1/ws22_log) Filesystem "dm-1": Disabling barriers, not supported with external log device XFS mounting filesystem dm-1 Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: dm-1 The server in question is running kernel 2.6.18.1 -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/