On 1/29/13 3:47 PM, Tom wrote: > In a previous message, Eric Sandeen wrote: ... >> I don't see anything obvious between the two kernels you mention, and I >> can't spend a ton of time digging into this, since most of my day is >> taken up supporting the RHEL customers who pay my salary, nudge nudge. >> ;) > > Any help is appreciated. Finding this bug may possibly help > ferret out another more possibly nefarious bug, which is why I don't > need instant gratification here. I'm only looking to assist with the > solution, not cause more stress. > > The "company" that I work for from 9-5 has an extensive RHEL 5.X and 6.X > deployment with Satellite, channels, full support, the whole nine yards. > They don't color outside the lines as I do -- they use ext3 for the root > filesystem instead. Their loss. :-) > > So don't worry, said "company" "gives" plenty to the "cause". ;-) > > However, after 5pm, I do unrelated personal work and projects unrelated > to said "company", and one of those things is working with CentOS and > Ubuntu. Using XFS quite extensively. Sorry for hassling you ;) >> >> I'd look at the kernel changelogs for xfs & md, and see if anything >> seems plausible. Maybe diff the sources & see what changed, etc. >> > > Yeah, I took a half-hearted look already. But didn't diff any source > code yet. I saw a freeze/thaw change and a few other md changes that > were suspect. But haven't had a chance to dig deeper. I'd suspect the md changes were the trigger, though maybe it reveals an xfs problem. I don't see anything in xfs that changed which should be causing this. The backtrace will help, I think. Thanks, -Eric > Thanks again. > > -- Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
