Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-25 Thread Rick Friedman
CJ van den Berg wrote: > This bug has caused serious data loss on my systems and no end of headaches > in the last two weeks. I really hope the fix goes into a debian kernel soon > to save others the pain. Well, it seems the kernel team has released a new stable version of the kernel, 2.6.17.7. Ac

Re: JFS stability [Was: Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...]

2006-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Matej Cepl wrote: CJ van den Berg wrote: This bug has caused serious data loss on my systems and no end of headaches in the last two weeks. I really hope the fix goes into a debian kernel soon to save others the pain. Just curious -- this is not the first report about c

JFS stability [Was: Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...]

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
CJ van den Berg wrote: > This bug has caused serious data loss on my systems and no end of > headaches in the last two weeks. I really hope the fix goes into a debian > kernel soon to save others the pain. Just curious -- this is not the first report about crash and loss of data I heard about XFS.

Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, CJ van den Berg wrote: On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html Check the FAQ, there is a 1 line bugfix patch available here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115315508506996&w=2 Discussion her

Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-25 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html > > Check the FAQ, there is a 1 line bugfix patch available here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115315508506996&w=2 > > Discussion here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=l

Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
It results in corruption of multiple directories in your filesystem, after you perform the fix shown in the FAQ, it will move hundreds of thousands (potentially) of files/directories/sockets/etc to /lost+found, so back up your data before! One way to fix: rsync your existing data elsewhere, fo

If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-24 Thread Justin Piszcz
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html Check the FAQ, there is a 1 line bugfix patch available here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115315508506996&w=2 Discussion here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=115342610512955&w=2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT