Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262777AbVAQL4a (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:56:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262778AbVAQL4a (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:56:30 -0500 Received: from sommereik.ii.uib.no ([129.177.16.236]:38814 "EHLO sommereik.ii.uib.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262777AbVAQL4Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:56:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:55:42 +0100 From: Jan-Frode Myklebust To: Jakob Oestergaard , Christoph Hellwig , David Greaves , Jan Kasprzak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kruty@fi.muni.cz Subject: Re: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0 Message-ID: <20050117115542.GA28901@ii.uib.no> Mail-Followup-To: Jakob Oestergaard , Christoph Hellwig , David Greaves , Jan Kasprzak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kruty@fi.muni.cz References: <20041209125918.GO9994@fi.muni.cz> <20041209135322.GK347@unthought.net> <20041209215414.GA21503@infradead.org> <20041221184304.GF16913@fi.muni.cz> <20041222084158.GG347@unthought.net> <20041222182344.GB14586@infradead.org> <41E80C1F.3070905@dgreaves.com> <20050114182308.GE347@unthought.net> <20050116135112.GA24814@infradead.org> <20050117100746.GI347@unthought.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050117100746.GI347@unthought.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1174 Lines: 39 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 fs/nfs/file.c seems stable on our mailserver running XFS on mail queue and spool (mbox). 4 days of uptime! > > ======= > Resolution to the storage server problem: > 2.6.8.1 UP is stable (but oopses regularly after memory allocation > failures) My XFS-fileserver ran 2.6.9-rc3 stable since october 25. Got lots of "possible deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0xd0)" this weekend, so I upgraded to plain 2.6.10. Seems OK so far. > > Hardware on all servers: IBM x335 and x345. Mail servers: Dell 2650, IBM ServeRAID 6M, EXP400. File servers: IBM x330, qla2300, infortrend eonstor. All running Whitebox/centos RHEL clone. -jf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/