Re: BUG: XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel in 2.6.27

From: Sean Purdy
Date: Thu Oct 16 2008 - 10:23:30 EST


On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Dave Chinner said:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:36:10AM +0100, Sean Purdy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Further to the discussion (and patching) of an xfs_trans_cancel
> > issue in June, in kernel < 2.6.26
> >
> > A similar issue came up on one disk of a 4 x 750GiB machine
> > with a 2.6.24 kernel. So I installed 2.6.27-6 and gave it another try.
> > But I'm still seeing the same problem. Remounting the drive each time
> > is fine, and xfs_check shows no errors.
>
> 2.6.27-6? You mean 2.6.27-rc6?

I meant rc9 as it happens, but never mind.

> Anyway, you need to try this patch:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-10/msg00105.html
>
> which I posted a few days ago that fixes the latest reproducable
> case of this shutdown that I know of.

This patch worked fine, thanks very much! Can we get it into
some stable version of 2.6.27? Maybe I can put in a bug request
for the next Ubuntu kernel.


Sean
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