On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 at 16:14, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > 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.
Oh dang. Chicken and egg kind of a problem huh? :( > 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. That should be fun. Especially since your SP is filesystem-related. ;> > 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). Just so you know, I've been using XFS on my server for quite awhile now and I get a lot of these massively simultaneous filesystem operations, especially when doing snapshots of the system during midnight. So no, I don't think that's the cause, although it could be the trigger. > 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. Well, the attempt to reproduce should be fun. ;> --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg> _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
