[mythtv-users] XFS crash

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 21, 2006, at 11:32 AM, yan seiner wrote:

> Tim Tait wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>> Yan, you don't say what install you use, Redhat, Debian, etc or  
>> what kernel.
>>
>>
> FC-2.  System has been up and running for well in excess of a year in
> its current base config.  The XFS file system was added last week,
> converted from a botched ext-3 setup.
>
>> I have been happily using XFS on a 4 drive RAID5 config under Debian
>> Testing with a 2.6.8 kernel for almost 2 years, w/o experiencing  
>> any XFS
>> issues. I use some of it for /usr, some for /home with Samba  
>> mounts, and
>> 200GB for Mythtv.
>>
>>
> What surprised me was that the file system was fine one second, and  
> then
> crashed completely and unrecoverably with no explanation.  Googling
> found others with the same experience.
>
> At the time the system was getting hit fairly hard with a big rsync  
> job
> as well as recording a show, but nothing the previous ext3 system  
> didn't
> handle.
>
>> Maybe you are having memory error problems?
>>
>>
> Possibly....  Though the rest of the system is absolutely stable  
> and the
> memory is ECC memory.
>
> I've converted everything to JFS; we'll see if that pukes.  In the
> meantime I am keeping my backup on an external USB drive....
>

I've tried most of them, and so far ext2/3 and JFS are the only ones  
that haven't bit me (other than my own fault).

Of course that may just mean that JFS is "due".

I wouldn't even think about running JFS without a UPS though.