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

[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 was allowing one process to delete an
> unshared xattr block while another was trying to share it, and the
> journaling code was getting upset when the second process then tried to
> commit the now-deleted block.
>  

Thanks for the update.

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.

On linux-2.6.10-ac10 I've got one machine that's been up for 6 days now 
that would never last more then 1 before.  On the other hand I have one 
machine that did die after two days.

Does linux-2.6.11-rc2 have both the linux-2.6.10-ac10 fix and the xattr 
problem fixed?  If so, I'll test there.

--
Jeffrey Hundstad
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