On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:45:27PM -0500, Alberto Alonso wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 18:36 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:43:51AM -0500, Alberto Alonso wrote: > > > I think his point was that going into a read only mode causes a > > > less catastrophic situation (ie. a web server can still serve > > > pages). > > > > Sure - but once you've detected one corruption or had metadata > > I/O errors, can you trust the rest of the filesystem? > > > > > I think that is a valid point, rather than shutting down > > > the file system completely, an automatic switch to where the least > > > disruption of service can occur is always desired. > > > > I consider the possibility of serving out bad data (i.e after > > a remount to readonly) to be the worst possible disruption of > > service that can happen ;) > > I guess it does depend on the nature of the failure. A write failure > on block 2000 does not imply corruption of the other 2TB of data.
The rest might not be corrupted, but if block 2000 is a index of some sort (i.e. metadata), you could reference any of that 2TB incorrectly and get the wrong data, write to the wrong spot on disk, etc. > > > I personally have found the XFS file system to be great for > > > my needs (except issues with NFS interaction, where the bug report > > > never got answered), but that doesn't mean it can not be improved. > > > > Got a pointer? > > I can't seem to find it. I'm pretty sure I used bugzilla to report > it. I did find the kernel dump file though, so here it is: > > Oct 3 15:34:07 localhost kernel: xfs_iget_core: ambiguous vns: > vp/0xd1e69c80, invp/0xc989e380 Oh, I haven't seen any of those problems for quite some time. > = /proc/kmsg started. > Oct 3 15:51:23 localhost kernel: > Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.8-2-686-smp Oh, well, yes, kernels that old did have that problem. It got fixed some time around 2.6.12 or 2.6.13 IIRC.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
