Re: kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:332!

[Mihai RUSU]

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On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Nathan Scott wrote:

> Was your filesystem near full?  There was a 2.4 deadlock fixed
> recently which could be what you hit there.

No it wasnt. It has a ~50% usage.

> You'll want a more recent 2.4 XFS kernel I suspect - Steve made
> several improvements in this area awhile back.

Ok. I know about improvements since XFS 1.1 and I assumed that using a 
recent (ie 2.6.0-test11) kernel the XFS bits with it whould be recent and 
such have those improvements.

> OK, looks like a default mkfs then (with an old-ish mkfs binary)?

True. Its a general /var partition, there waasnt any interest in giving 
mkfs paramteres for it.

> Newer mkfs' will give you a better AG layout and unwritten extents
> would be turned on - not relevent to this problem at all though.

Ok, noted :)

> An "ls -ld" and "xfs_bmap -v" on the directory would also provide
> me a bit more info to work with -- thanks!

$ ls -ld interfaces/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        16384 Dec  5 09:06 interfaces/

$ /usr/sbin/xfs_bmap interfaces/
interfaces/:
        0: [0..7]: 25238288..25238295
        1: [8..31]: 25238304..25238327


> I have a few ideas about what this might be, let me stew on those
> for a bit and try a few things.

Thanks!

> -- 
> Nathan

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