Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759270AbYJVWab (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752195AbYJVWaN (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:30:13 -0400 Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.146]:14058 "EHLO ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751529AbYJVWaL (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:30:11 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Am4DAM8S9kh5LE2tgWdsb2JhbACTYAEBFiKuDIFr X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,467,1220193000"; d="scan'208";a="216212234" Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:30:05 +1100 From: Dave Chinner To: Linda Walsh Cc: LKML , xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.27.[0,2] problems (v. 2.6.26.5): Samba & root-read-only Message-ID: <20081022223005.GV18495@disturbed> Mail-Followup-To: Linda Walsh , LKML , xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <48FED90F.7030809@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48FED90F.7030809@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1560 Lines: 40 On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:41:03AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > I am having to stay at 2.6.26.5 for now on my main home server. > > Going to 2.6.27 (and just trying 2.6.27.2), I'm have two VERY weird (would > appear to be user-land probs from symptoms), problems. > > 1) Samba -- the system is a Samba domain controller. When I boot using > the 2.6.27.2 kernel (or .0 before), I can no longer mount any file systems > from my windows client. ..... > > 2) My root disk comes up READ-ONLY. It uses XFS. I am NOT able to remount > read/write (mount -o remount,rw /, fails writing to Read-only /etc/mtab, > mount -n -o remount,rw doesn't give an error message, but doesn't make the > drive R/W. Root fs is on an adaptec FAST-SCSI (80MB/s) with an 18MB Seagate > (root, disk is oldest disk on the system). That XFS problem should be fixed in 2.6.27.3, whenever that is going to be released. It was sent and ACK'd by the stable team a week ago, but for some reason missed 2.6.27.2. Most likely is that the Samba problem will be caused by the smbd not being able to write to it's databases when clients try to connect because of the read-only root fs. If you want to patch your kernel, the patch is here: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-10/msg00284.html Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com -- 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/