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

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