> It turned out in my case to be related to: > http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=840 > > Write barriers were not passed when using LVM/XFS/MegaRAID combined. After > upgrading the kernel to 2.6.39 (used packages from > http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php) all XFS issues were resolved. The > other solution was not using LVM. I fail to see how missing write barriers can make a difference to what the filesystem reads from the block layer. How is this possible? Does the block layer not take the pending writes into account when handling read requests? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
