On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:32:45AM +0000, Tony Lu wrote: > Thanks for you following up. > > My apologize that I just found that it is one change I made before > that causes this problem. This change forces mkfs.xfs to format > xfs partitions whose sectorsize were not smaller than 4096 bytes, > which was due to a bug that earlier versions of xfs used (struct > *page)->private(long) as a bitmap to represent each block's state > within a page (the size of a page could be 64K or larger, then it > needs 128 bit or more to represent each block's state within a > page). You do realise that bug doesn't affect x86-64 platforms as they don't support 64k pages? > This is reproducible on 2.6.38.6 kernel on X86. But I do not get > why this change makes the xfs log inconsistent during > mount/cp/umount operations. Neither do I, and I don't care to look any further because the problem is of your own making. In future, please check first that the bug you are reporting is reproducable on a current upstream kernel and userspace. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
