xfs filesystem crash

[Joe Barnett]

I've definitely seen stability issues with xfs.  most of my /usr/lib
at one point got eaten up and replaced with "error 990"s.  I've
switched to reiser, and have not had similar issues.

-Joe


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:52:01 +0100, Krysztof Luks <kluks at iq.pl> wrote:
> 
> [Re-sending to ubuntu-devel. Could someone please put
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> 
> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 15:46 +0100, An-tonio wrote:
> 
> > I've had some problems using xfs filesystem in horay. I don't know in
> > which circumstances can be reproduced the problem but sometimes the xfs
> > filesystem crash, gettin only an input/output error when I tried to exec
> > some command in console like "ls". I have to reboot with a rescue cd an
> > xfs_repair filesystem... I get a lot of data corrupt.
> 
> I had this exact problem some weeks ago (XFS + Hoary 2.6.8.1 kernel). I
> was getting those I/O errors every time I started MySQL server. Plus
> corrupted /var/lib/dpkg/status (filled with zeros). It's curious that
> every  time i got the same file corrupted.
> 
> > First I thought it was a problem with my hd at home, but I get the same
> > problem at work where I use horay too. The two systems are used for
> > office/desktop. I have search some info in Internet and I think may be a
> > problem with 2.6 kernel and xfs under high load. With both kernel, 2.6.8
> > and 2.6.9 the filesystem crash in work and home.
> 
> I checked my disk with Seagate's tool and it didn't report any errors. I
> also memtest86+'ed my system for several hours.
> 
> Now I don't run mysql, but from time to time xfs_check reports
> filesystem errors, but no I/O errors, file corruption or forced reboots.
> 
> I asked on IRC but no one there had similar problems. I'll install mysql
> in a few minutes and see if it causes problems with Hoary 2.6.9 kernel.
> 
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