Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-28 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 20:15, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote: Does linux-2.6.11-rc2 have both the linux-2.6.10-ac10 fix and the xattr problem fixed? Not sure about how much of -ac went in, but it has the xattr fix. I've had my machine that would cra

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-28 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 20:15, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote: > >>Does linux-2.6.11-rc2 have both the linux-2.6.10-ac10 fix and the xattr > >>problem fixed? > >Not sure about how much of -ac went in, but it has the xattr fix. > I've had my machine that would crash daily if not hourly stay up for

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-28 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:09, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald I wonder if there are several problems. Alan Cox claimed that there was a fix in linux-2.6.10-ac10 that might alleviate the pro

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:09, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > >> Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines > >> Oops in kjournald > I wonder if there are several problems. Alan Cox claimed that there was > a fix in linux-2.6.10-ac10 that might alleviate the problem. I'm not sure --

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald That seems to have been due to the xattr problems recently fixed in Linus's tree. The xattr race w

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > For more of this look up subjects: > Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines > Oops in kjournald That seems to have been due to the xattr problems recently fixed in Linus's tree. The xattr race was allowing one process

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-20 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald and from author: Anders Saaby I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-18 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Christoph Hellwig wrote: : I have a better patch than the one I gave you (attached below). If you : send me a mail with steps to reproduce your remaining problems I'll put : this very high on my TODO list after christmas. Btw, any chance you could : try XFS CVS (which is at 2.6.9) + the patch bel

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few > hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the problem > need to talk to the powers who be to come up with a strategy to make a > report they can use. M

journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald and from author: Anders Saaby I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the problem need to talk to

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Anders Saaby
Hi, On Monday 17 January 2005 12:55, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > > Guess we've been struggeling with much of the same problems.. Seems like it. :) > > --- > > Scenario 2: Mailservers: > > Running XFS on mailqueue: > > The 2.6.10-1.737_FC3 + 's/posix_lock_file/posix_lock_file_wait/' on > f

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:07:46AM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > > Where should I begin? ;) Guess we've been struggeling with much of the same problems.. > --- > Scenario 2: Mailservers: > Running XFS on mailqueue: The 2.6.10-1.737_FC3 + 's/posix_lock_file/posix_lock_file_wait/' on f

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:51:12PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:23:09PM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > > So apart from the general well known instability problems that will > > occur when you actually start *using* the system, there should be no > > What known in

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-16 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:09:08PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote: ... > > AFAIK the best you can do is to get the most recent XFS kernel from > > SGI's CVS (this one is based on 2.6.10). > > The -mm tree also has these fixes; we'll get them merged into > mainline soon. Okeydokey - good > > > If you

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:23:09PM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > So apart from the general well known instability problems that will > occur when you actually start *using* the system, there should be no What known instabilities? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin