Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750768AbWH3JTv (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:19:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750773AbWH3JTv (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:19:51 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.231]:21579 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750768AbWH3JTu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:19:50 -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=jPsdoH8FcUT/tKbs4ort831Kdj27EWjw2aRpEhuMymr290Gk1NanwFuazTS0U7BFIG/+tSJSW8eg2Kz7x1dnbR8gDpsUBbSCObW/2ewEglRg+EUC3rWXwuylG0kflI5Lg7n62WSckaOTRR4528NVHOzRiAASidF3enRVorz0F2Q= Message-ID: <9a8748490608300219qb3adege9e400bc5d51a21d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:19:49 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Kasper Sandberg" Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc5 Cc: "Nathan Scott" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <1156925667.28597.1.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> <9a8748490608280335w4474b489u45b3b0b05b7f2f44@mail.gmail.com> <20060829083643.A3150749@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <9a8748490608281630v26db3164y4f104d13a3b201b6@mail.gmail.com> <1156925667.28597.1.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2261 Lines: 42 On 30/08/06, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 01:30 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > On 29/08/06, Nathan Scott wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:35:00PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > On 28/08/06, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:10 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > I would be surprised if this is not a day one bug, it probably > > > even affects the IRIX version of XFS. Our problem is the lack > > > of a test case to find it - my efforts have come to naught so > > > far. I'm having to cross my fingers that Jesper can extract a > > > bit more information when he's next able to hit it. > > > > > I'm trying my best, but it's difficult. Often I can only run the -rc > > kernel for a few hours on the box that currently shows the problem, > > and that's not enough to hit the fault. > > I've configured a XFS partition on my home workstation and I'm keeping > > that one busy doing various rsync's and running benchmarks etc - > > putting as much different stress on the XFS filesystem as I can. I'm > > also setting up a test box at work to try and duplicate the problem on > > a non-production server. I won't be able to duplicate the setup > > exactly, but it'll be close. > > i have nyself tested xfs in -rc5 now, doing rsync over and over, and > been unable to hit any problem, it indeed seems very hard to reproduce. > Just in case I have not mentioned it before; the box I'm seeing the problem on is a dual 3.2GHz Xeon and the kernel is compiled for SMP. might be relevant, might not be... -- 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/