Hi Nuno - can you elaborate on the ARM hardware? I noticed that my XFS on ARM was mildly unstable, but felt it wasn't XFS code, but rather the ARM port of Linux. My test case is a Seagate Dockstar hacked to run Linux. I'll see if I can update to the latest kernel and test this use case as well - it would be interesting to see how well it works (I'd like to run my Dockstar as a mythtv server - stability was good enough for proof of concept, but not longer term use). Thanks, Paul On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Nuno Subtil <subtil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an MD RAID-1 array with two SATA drives, formatted as XFS. > Occasionally, doing an umount followed by a mount causes the mount to > fail with errors that strongly suggest some sort of filesystem > corruption (usually 'bad clientid' with a seemingly arbitrary ID, but > occasionally invalid log errors as well). > > The one thing in common among all these failures is that they require > xfs_repair -L to recover from. This has already caused a few > lost+found entries (and data loss on recently written files). I > originally noticed this bug because of mount failures at boot, but > I've managed to repro it reliably with this script: > > while true; do > mount /store > (cd /store && tar xf test.tar) > umount /store > mount /store > rm -rf /store/test-data > umount /store > done > > test.tar contains around 100 files with various sizes inside > test-data/, ranging from a few hundred KB to around 5-6MB. The failure > triggers within minutes of starting this loop. > > I'm not entirely sure that this is XFS-specific, but the same script > does run successfully overnight on the same MD array with ext3 on it. > This is on an ARM system running kernel 2.6.39. > > Has something like this been seen before? > > Thanks, > Nuno > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
