[mythtv-users] Most Reliable FS. XFS maybe causing crash

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Fri Sep 15 19:37:07 UTC 2006


Mark wrote:
> How did you know it was XFS that killed it?  My server locks too but no log 
> data to diagnose with.
>   

Because the XFS raid partition was completely hosed.  No data, no 
superblock (or whatever XFS calls it), nothing understandable remained 
of the filesystem.  No log data either, just a hard lockup on the 
server.  It looked like a hardware failure.

The exact same hardware has performed without a glitch for nearly a year 
now with JFS.

However, I am running a 2.6.15 self-compiled vanilla kernel on a FC2 
box, so much of my stuff is pretty dated.  It's possible that I've 
updated the kernel since the crash as well; I can't recall.

Given the variety of responses you're seeing, I'd guess that XFS is 
probably maturing very quickly, and the problems you and I are seeing 
may be due to an older version.

--Yan



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