Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964786AbWH1KfE (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:35:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964787AbWH1KfE (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:35:04 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]:21113 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964786AbWH1KfB (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:35:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lowpEPc8lTgl6Hn+vYB/9oJON4Jyycz5Ib8n4OxUxEJP3LLfP+mz/6p64TxBW70mdCho2JSLcNj3IHah4JjdLYFDbg0hpPekqeIKPFhlaL7OXP8RA85A8ahLOkGkk1qqm4gWa7+QH2UeIxD7Tcaigm3aQ+Et0TceGAzK93dw/PQ= Message-ID: <9a8748490608280335w4474b489u45b3b0b05b7f2f44@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:35:00 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Kasper Sandberg" Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc5 Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Nathan Scott" In-Reply-To: <1156760869.24904.1.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490608280310q65c1335cr2603b044c340a489@mail.gmail.com> <1156760869.24904.1.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3107 Lines: 68 On 28/08/06, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:10 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > On 28/08/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > Ok, > > > this was delayed three weeks due to a combination of vacations and a > > > funeral in Finland, but Greg and Andrew kept on top of things, and we were > > > fairly late in the release cycle anyway, so it hopefully caused no real > > > problems apart from obviously delaying the final release a tiny bit. > > > > > > Linux 2.6.18-rc5 is out there now, both in git form and as patches and > > > tar-balls (the latter which I forgot for -rc4, but Greg covered for me - > > > blush). > > > > > > The shortlog (appended) tells the story: various fixes all around. > > > Powerpc, V4L, networking, SCSI.. > > > > > > Pls test it out, and please remind all the appropriate people about any > > > regressions you find (including any found earlier if they haven't been > > > addressed yet). > > > > > Not really a regression, more like a long standing bug, but XFS has > > issues in 2.6.18-rc* (and earlier kernels, at least post 2.6.11). > and you are saying this issue exists in all post .11 kernels? No, I don't know that for sure. All I know is that 2.6.17.x (with x >= 7) falls over, 2.6.18-rc[34] falls over and there's nothing in 2.6.18-rc5 that looks like a fix but I've not tested that kernel yet (but I have tested 2.6.18-rc4 + the xfs fix that went into -rc5 and that one doesn't solve it). 2.6.11 is simply the kernel the server I can reproduce this on was running previously, and that kernel is stable. It's a production machine and it takes hours to hit the problem, so I can't very well do a binary search of all kernels between 2.6.11 and 2.6.18-rc. > > With heavy rsync load to a machine with XFS filesystems, XFS falls > > over and filesystems are in need of xfs_repair. > > I'm doing all I can to gather info for Nathan so he can fix the bug, > > but it's hard to trigger reliably. > could you please describe whatever you have found out, im eager to take > a look at it myself Take a look at the thread I mention, that should describe the problem and what we have found out so far. Here's a link to the start of the thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/4/97 > > My point is that perhaps it's worth delaying 2.6.18 a little longer in > > the hope of getting that bug fixed before release. Nathan? > > At least for me, XFS in its current state (and thus 2.6.18) is > > unusable in production environments. > > > > See the thread titled "2.6.18-rc3-git3 - XFS - BUG: unable to handle > > kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000078" for the > > full story. > > > -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/