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>I presume you've done "xfs_repair -n" on the partition. This will not do
>anything but will tell you if it finds anything wrong. You have to do this
>while your erring filesystem is unmounted. If you've done that, any error
>messages?

Yep. The repair, however, can't proceed since there's no more disk space
available, as I've invoked xfs_repair while the system is unmounted before
I posted. I don't have the problem as of the present (after mkfs-ing to
a fresh start), so I need to deliberately mess with it again to reproduce it.


>In light of positivism, reproduce the problem. The easier it is to
>reproduce it, the more help you can probably get. Then get on the XFS
>mailing list and report whatever you can report. Good stuff to say are:
>how to reproduce the problem, what xfs_repair says on a problematic
>filesystem, et al.

I think it is a race condition that causes this (doing simultaneous file
operations such as mass deletion or simultaneous opening of multiple files
across v/c's and X terminals was one thing I was doing before the FS
f*cked up) when using XFS over large partitions with large files stored in
a folder. I'll reproduce the problem once I figure it out (previous problem
like that happened around 2 months ago).

It's not also because of quota because the previous time this mess happened
I'm not yet implementing quota on my XFS /home partition.

>The XFS developers may ask for your help by asking you to run xfs_db or
>something like that to isolate the problem.

I should've runned it before proceeding to mkfs. Then I would've been of
any help debugging and isolating the problem to its root.

Thanks.


Paolo Alexis Falcone

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