Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751295AbXAVJmy (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:42:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751332AbXAVJmy (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:42:54 -0500 Received: from server077.de-nserver.de ([62.27.12.245]:37244 "EHLO server077.de-nserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751295AbXAVJmx (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:42:53 -0500 Message-ID: <45B4870C.9080108@profihost.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:42:36 +0100 From: Stefan Priebe - FH User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Chinner CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug References: <20060801143212.D2326184@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <44CEDA1D.5060607@profihost.com> <20060801143803.E2326184@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <44CF36FB.6070606@profihost.com> <20060802090915.C2344877@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <44D07AB7.3020409@profihost.com> <20060802201805.A2360409@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <45B35CD7.4080801@profihost.com> <20070122061852.GT33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> <45B46CEE.4090808@profihost.com> <20070122080306.GW33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070122080306.GW33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-User-Auth: Auth by hostmaster@profihost.com through 84.134.23.182 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1174 Lines: 37 Hi! I've another idea... could it be, that it is a barrier problem? Since barriers are enabled by default from 2.6.17 on ... Stefan David Chinner schrieb: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:51:10AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'm not shure but perhaps it isn't an XFS Bug. >> >> Here is what i find out: >> >> We've about 300 servers at the momentan and 5 of them are "old" Intel >> Pentium 4 Machines with a DFI PM-12 Mainboard with VIA chipset. It only >> happens on THESE Machines. > > Hmmm - that points more to a hardware problem than a software problem; > crashes in generic_file_buffered_write() are relatively uncommon, and > to have them all isolated to a specific type of hardware is suspicious.... > > Wasn't there a major update of the IDE layer in 2.6.18? or was that > 2.6.19 that I'm thinking of? BTW, have you run memtest86 on these > boxes to rule out dodgy memory? > > Cheers, > > Dave. - 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/