Re: XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1163 of filefs/xfs/xfs_trans.c

From: Konstantin Kletschke
Date: Mon Jun 23 2008 - 03:58:19 EST


Am 2008-06-23 08:53 +1000 schrieb Dave Chinner:

> > If I am correct, this fix is included in 2.6.26-rc6:
>
> Yes, so if you're seeing it again then there's a different problem.

There seems to be something else too, yes.

> Please provide a pointer to a xfs_metadump image of the filesystem
> and the steps to reproduce the error from the image so we can
> get to the bottom of it...

Well, accidently I formatted the partition. I needed my /var partition
urgently and I tried the following: I tarred the whole /var from a
rescue system (gentoo amd64 live cd version 2007.0, IIRC there is 2.6.19
on it) and did a "rm -fr /var/*" and tried to tar it back.

While this worked for my /home (I also had the error there), tarring
back the files onto /var produced several oopses in dmesg and the
userspace complained about an error in a (directory?) structure not
being accessible/not able to be initialized. Well, I took screenshots of
this but accidently I lost them on my cam and due to running a rescue
system there is no reminisence in a file of this.

I formatted the partition then :-(

I could only try to reproduce it on my home partition... Does anybody
have a clue how this can be done or a suspicion how to trigger this
error?

King Regards, Konsti


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