Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:56:36 +1000 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1 |
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:08:30AM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 23:57, Nathan Scott wrote: > [snip] > > > of programs fail in mysterious ways. I tried to recover using xfs_repair > > > but I feel that my partition is thorougly borked. Of course no data was > > > lost due to backups but still I'd like this bug to be fixed ;-) > > > > 2.6.18-rc1 should be fine (contains the corruption fix). Did you > > mkfs and restore? Or at least get a full repair run? If you did, > > and you still see issues in .18-rc1, please let me know asap. > > Just out of interest, I've got a few XFS volumes that were created 24 months > ago on a machine that I upgraded to 2.6.17 about a month ago. I haven't seen > any crashes so far. > > Assuming I get the newest XFS repair tools on there, what's the disadvantage > of repairing versus creating a new filesystem? What special circumstances are > required to cause a crash?
There should be no disadvantage to repairing. I will update the FAQ shortly to describe all the details of the problem, recommendations on how to address it, which kernel version is affected, etc.
cheers.
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