Hi,

I tried an lssu -a /dev/... | grep -e "2009-" | grep -e "---" without
receiving a result, so I suppose on my actual nilfs2 filesystems there are
no in use but not dirty segments.

Bye,
David Arendt

> Hi David,
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:20:05 +0900 (JST), Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:55:56 +0100, David Arendt <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > one thing I forgot to mention, in /etc/nilfs_cleanerd.conf I changed
>> > n_segments_per clean to 20 in order to clean faster when running the
>> > cleaner manually. Could this have any influence ?
>>
>> Yes, maybe.  It raises memory pressure then may induce unusual path of
>> execution like cache invalidation.  It may even increase the chance of
>> revealing underlying problems in relocation of on-disk blocks.
>>
>> Decreasing cleaning_interval is safer in general.  We'll try the
>> condition.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ryusuke
>
> I examined the case of nsegments_per_clean = 20 and met an
> inconsistent state as follows:
>
>  # lssu -a
>              SEGNUM        DATE     TIME STAT     NBLOCKS
>                ...
>                7418  2009-03-27 18:41:33  -d-        2048
>                7419  2009-03-27 18:41:48  -d-        2048
>                7420  2009-03-27 18:42:08  -d-        2048
>                7421  2009-03-27 18:42:28  -d-        2048
>                7422  2009-03-27 18:42:48  ---        2048
>                7423  2009-03-27 18:43:03  ---        2048
>                7424  2009-03-27 18:43:23  -d-        2048
>                7425  2009-03-27 18:43:33  ad-        1166
>                7426  ---------- --:--:--  ad-           0
>                7427  ---------- --:--:--  ---           0
>                ...
>
> Here, the segment 7422 and 7423 are in-use but not dirty.
>
> This is crucial because these segments will be reallocated and
> overridden later.  I suspect there is a bug of error handling
> somewhere, and it evaporates the dirty flag and causes the crash.
>
> If you have a (not broken) nilfs partition made under heavy stress,
> could you try ``lssu -a'' likewise ?
>
> I'll dig into this from now.
>
> Regards,
> Ryusuke Konishi
>


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