Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:29:54 +1000 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: xfs corruption or not |
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On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:14:43PM -0600, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: > ... > errors. I also did an xfs_repair on the system, which corrected problems.. > > However, thunderbird still generates the following oops, and then it > becomes unkillable. Do you think this is most likely due to: > - memory is still defective > - there's corruption on-disk which isn't fixed > or > - this is an actual bug in xfs > > Note that there's no input/output errors after the oops, and only > thunderbird causes this (so far).
Do you know if the kernel was low on memory at the time? (any signs of allocation failures in your system log?)
This looks like a memory allocation failure which hasn't been gracefully handled (or approriately retried) in XFS - there's a few patches being worked on to improve this, but they aren't ready to be merged in just yet.
> EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.6-1.406) > EIP is at xfs_bmbt_set_all+0x2f/0x5c [xfs] > Process thunderbird-bin (pid: 3799, threadinfo=04b32000 task=041aadf0)
> [<0a8c48f7>] xfs_bmap_insert_exlist+0x97/0xae [xfs] > [<0a8c1cc7>] xfs_bmap_add_extent_hole_delay+0x42f/0x485 [xfs]
cheers.
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