Re: [Vserver] PROBLEM: Oops in log_do_checkpoint, using vserver

From: Stephen Frost
Date: Wed Oct 20 2004 - 07:33:08 EST


* Herbert Poetzl (herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 06:01:00PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Assertion failure in log_do_checkpoint() at fs/jbd/checkpoint.c:361:
> > "drop_count != 0 || cleanup_ret != 0"
>
> you can split up this assertion into
>
> - drop_count != 0
> - cleanup_ret != 0
>
> and fail on that (or just output those values
> before you panic) ... this might give some
> deeper insight into the issue ...

Hmm, that's a good thought, though I have to say I'd really like to get
a comment from the ext3 folks. This is also a production server, so I'd
kind of like to minimize the downtime. :)

> > If there's anything else I can do to help get this resolved, please let
> > me know.. This is the only problem I'm having with this server now,
> > other than this it's behaving pretty nicely. :)
>
> maybe until it gets fixed, mounting the ext3
> without journal might help here?

Yeah, I've mounted it as ext2 for now. It's been working fine so far.

Stephen

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