Re: FAQ updated (was Re: XFS breakage...)

[Justin Piszcz]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Nathan Scott wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 06:18:14PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > Nathan,
> >
> > Does the bug only occur during a crash?
>
> No, its unrelated to crashing.  Only when adding/removing from a
> directory that is in a specific node/btree format (many entries),
> and only under a specific set of conditions (like what directory
> entry names were used, which blocks they've hashed to and how they
> ended up being allocated and in what order each block gets removed
> from the directory).
>
> > I have been running 2.6.17.x for awhile now (multiple XFS filesystems, all
> > on UPS) - no issue?
>
> Could be an issue, could be none.  xfs_check it to be sure.
>
> cheers.
>
> --
> Nathan

p34:~# xfs_check -v /dev/md3
xfs_check: out of memory
p34:~#

D'oh...

1GB ram, 2GB swap trying to check a 2.6T fs, no dice.

As long as it mounted ok with the patched kernel, should one be ok?
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