Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jan 2009 02:46:59 -0500 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(1) at line 2015 of file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c |
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:16:22AM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a recurring problem with XFS which started about a day ago. > All of a sudden when reading a certain part of the disk (not sure where, > but my nightly backups trigger it) I get an infinite loop of these > messages appearing in my logs: > > xfs_da_do_buf: bno 8388608 > dir: inode 3087268096 > Filesystem "md0": XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(1) at line 2015 of > file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c. Caller 0xffffffff802eba63 > Pid: 4445, comm: metalog Tainted: P 2.6.28-rc2 #3
This is a typical result of a power loss scenario with write caches enabled and without barriers. Given that md can't pass through barriers did you disable the write caches on your disk?
> Does anyone know what this error means? Do I need to reformat the filesystem?
Run xfs_repair over it to fix up the directory, and make sure to configure your disks properly so that it doesn't happen again..
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