Hi Jon, we encountered the same problem on four of our 64-bit machines in Aachen. They are setup as homedir servers and quite loaded. On one machine we had to do the xfs_repair after access to the filesystem resulted in Input/Output errors. The XFS is on top of a sofware RAID-5 consisting of 4 HDDs. The filesystem is exported via NFS3 to our desktop cluster. Before the kernel update no problems occured. We decided to step back to the old kernel version with the XFS modules not included in the kernel rpms. Until now everything seems to be quiet again. We hope to find some time next week to test a similar machine with NFS4 and software RAID-5 with XFS on the newest 64-bit SL5 kernel. Cheers, Michael. Jon Peatfield schrieb: > On wednesday morning we updated most of our sl53 machines to the current > 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 kernel. > > Since then we have had two machines (both x86_64 of course) using xfs > report xfs corruption problems, e.g. on one of the machines today: > <snip> > > running xfs_repair(*) shows no obvious problems, and the fs then appears > to be ok for a while at least. On one of the machines the problem came > back after a few more hours, but since then hasn't happened again - yet. > > Is anyone else seeing this? So far we have only noticed this on two > machines which happen to be also having the xfs volume used quite > heavily over NFS but that may be co-incidence. > > Until the new kernel these machines were apparently working ok with the > previous sl53 kernel, so maybe this is caused by how TUV happen to have > built their xfs modules - as compared to the ones which SL made before... > > (*) xfs_repair (and xfs_check) refused to touch the file-system claiming > it was mounted even though we had unmounted it. We ended up needing to > reboot with the fs commented out of fstab to get xfs_repair to run. > I've never needed to run xfs_repair before so I don't know if that is > normal or not but it seems odd - though probably not related to the real > problem. > > Is there a way we can do any tests with xfs built like it was for the > older sl kernels? > > -- Jon > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Phys. Michael Bontenackels III. Physikalisches Institut A Phone +49 241 80 27285 Office 28A221 Fax +49 241 80 22189 III. Physikalisches Institut B Phone +49 241 80 27281 Office 28A206 Fax +49 241 80 22244 RWTH Aachen Physikzentrum Otto-Blumenthal-Straße 52074 Aachen Germany [log in to unmask] -- private ------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Bontenackels Phone +49 241 4459858 Haßlerstraße 7-9 Mobile +49 178 1488219 52066 Aachen Fax +49 1212 515369028 Germany [log in to unmask] -----------------------------------------------------------------------