On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:48:36AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 02:22:35PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > On 2013.07.15 at 08:47 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > I've bisected this issue to the following commit: > > > > commit cca9f93a52d2ead50b5da59ca83d5f469ee4be5f > > Author: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Thu Jun 27 16:04:49 2013 +1000 > > > > xfs: don't do IO when creating an new inode > > > > Reverting this commit on top of the Linus tree "solves" all problems for > > me. IOW I no longer loose my KDE and LibreOffice config files during a > > crash. Log recovery now works fine and xfs_repair shows no issues. > > Thanks for bisecting this, Marcus. > > I'll admit, right now it doesn't make a lot of sense to me - I don't > immediately see a connection between not reading an inode during the > create phase and unlinked list and directory corruption after a > crash. But now you've identified a change that might be the cause, > I have an avenue of investigation I can follow. > > Indeed, in the time I've taken to write this mail I've thought of > 2-3 possible causes that I need to investigate.... Hi Markus, can you test the patch I just posted to the list titled "xfs: di_flushiter considered harmful" and see if it fixes your problem? Archive link here: http://oss.sgi.com/pipermail/xfs/2013-July/028331.html Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs