Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-28 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 20:15, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote: Does linux-2.6.11-rc2 have both the linux-2.6.10-ac10 fix and the xattr problem fixed? Not sure about how much of -ac went in, but it has the xattr fix. I've had my machine that would

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-28 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 20:15, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote: > >>Does linux-2.6.11-rc2 have both the linux-2.6.10-ac10 fix and the xattr > >>problem fixed? > >Not sure about how much of -ac went in, but it has the xattr fix. > I've had my machine that would crash daily if not hourly stay up

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-28 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:09, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald I wonder if there are several problems. Alan Cox claimed that there was a fix in linux-2.6.10-ac10 that might alleviate the

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-28 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:09, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald I wonder if there are several problems. Alan Cox claimed that there was a fix in linux-2.6.10-ac10 that might alleviate the

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-28 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 20:15, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote: Does linux-2.6.11-rc2 have both the linux-2.6.10-ac10 fix and the xattr problem fixed? Not sure about how much of -ac went in, but it has the xattr fix. I've had my machine that would crash daily if not hourly stay up for 10

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-28 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 20:15, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote: Does linux-2.6.11-rc2 have both the linux-2.6.10-ac10 fix and the xattr problem fixed? Not sure about how much of -ac went in, but it has the xattr fix. I've had my machine that would

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:09, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > >> Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines > >> Oops in kjournald > I wonder if there are several problems. Alan Cox claimed that there was > a fix in linux-2.6.10-ac10 that might alleviate the problem. I'm not sure

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald That seems to have been due to the xattr problems recently fixed in Linus's tree. The xattr race

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > For more of this look up subjects: > Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines > Oops in kjournald That seems to have been due to the xattr problems recently fixed in Linus's tree. The xattr race was allowing one process

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald That seems to have been due to the xattr problems recently fixed in Linus's tree. The xattr race was allowing one process to

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald That seems to have been due to the xattr problems recently fixed in Linus's tree. The xattr race

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:09, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald I wonder if there are several problems. Alan Cox claimed that there was a fix in linux-2.6.10-ac10 that might alleviate the problem. I'm not sure --- there

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-20 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald and from author: Anders Saaby I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-20 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald and from author: Anders Saaby I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-18 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Christoph Hellwig wrote: : I have a better patch than the one I gave you (attached below). If you : send me a mail with steps to reproduce your remaining problems I'll put : this very high on my TODO list after christmas. Btw, any chance you could : try XFS CVS (which is at 2.6.9) + the patch

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-18 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Christoph Hellwig wrote: : I have a better patch than the one I gave you (attached below). If you : send me a mail with steps to reproduce your remaining problems I'll put : this very high on my TODO list after christmas. Btw, any chance you could : try XFS CVS (which is at 2.6.9) + the patch

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few > hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the problem > need to talk to the powers who be to come up with a strategy to make a > report they can use.

journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald and from author: Anders Saaby I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the problem need to talk to

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Anders Saaby
Hi, On Monday 17 January 2005 12:55, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > > Guess we've been struggeling with much of the same problems.. Seems like it. :) > > --- > > Scenario 2: Mailservers: > > Running XFS on mailqueue: > > The 2.6.10-1.737_FC3 + 's/posix_lock_file/posix_lock_file_wait/' on >

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:07:46AM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > > Where should I begin? ;) Guess we've been struggeling with much of the same problems.. > --- > Scenario 2: Mailservers: > Running XFS on mailqueue: The 2.6.10-1.737_FC3 + 's/posix_lock_file/posix_lock_file_wait/' on

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:51:12PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:23:09PM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > > So apart from the general well known instability problems that will > > occur when you actually start *using* the system, there should be no > > What known

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:51:12PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:23:09PM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: So apart from the general well known instability problems that will occur when you actually start *using* the system, there should be no What known

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:07:46AM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: Where should I begin? ;) Guess we've been struggeling with much of the same problems.. --- Scenario 2: Mailservers: Running XFS on mailqueue: The 2.6.10-1.737_FC3 + 's/posix_lock_file/posix_lock_file_wait/' on

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Anders Saaby
Hi, On Monday 17 January 2005 12:55, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: Guess we've been struggeling with much of the same problems.. Seems like it. :) --- Scenario 2: Mailservers: Running XFS on mailqueue: The 2.6.10-1.737_FC3 + 's/posix_lock_file/posix_lock_file_wait/' on

journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald and from author: Anders Saaby I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the problem need to talk to

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: I also can't keep a recent 2.6 or 2.6*-ac* kernel up more than a few hours on a machine under real load. Perhaps us folks with the problem need to talk to the powers who be to come up with a strategy to make a report they can use. My

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-16 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:09:08PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote: ... > > AFAIK the best you can do is to get the most recent XFS kernel from > > SGI's CVS (this one is based on 2.6.10). > > The -mm tree also has these fixes; we'll get them merged into > mainline soon. Okeydokey - good > > > If

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:23:09PM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > So apart from the general well known instability problems that will > occur when you actually start *using* the system, there should be no What known instabilities? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:23:09PM +0100, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: So apart from the general well known instability problems that will occur when you actually start *using* the system, there should be no What known instabilities? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-16 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:09:08PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote: ... AFAIK the best you can do is to get the most recent XFS kernel from SGI's CVS (this one is based on 2.6.10). The -mm tree also has these fixes; we'll get them merged into mainline soon. Okeydokey - good If you run that