On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:39:59PM +0200, Marco Berizzi wrote:
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> Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:11:31AM +0200, Marco Berizzi wrote:
> > > Hi Folk,
> > >
> > > I was tring to compile firefox 3.0rc3
> > > and while I was erasing a previous
> > > /tmp/mozilla tree, I started a new
> > > tar xjf mozilla-blabla.
> > > After a while linux 2.6.26-rc6 was
> > > unresponsive: I have unplugged the
> > > power cable. No problem at startup,
> > > but:
> >
> > What are your mount options?
> 
> root@Venus:/etc# cat mtab
> /dev/sda2 / xfs rw 0 0
> 
> root@Venus:/etc# cat fstab
> /dev/sda2        /                xfs         defaults         1   1

[...]

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> XFS mounting filesystem sda2
> Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sda2
> VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly.
> 
> > I ask because I've
> > seen this sort of directory corruption before when using volatile
> > write caches and yanking the power....
> >
> > i.e. the corruption could have been caused by the way you reset the
> > system, not because of the hang. Do you have any information on what
> > caused the hang?
> 
> The tar xf mozilla-source.tarball was not responding
> nor writing anything on the disk. I did issue also a
> kill -9 'pid of tar xf' but it did not want to die.
> So I think the problem was on the filesystem before
> the incorrect shutdown.

Yeah, it sounds like the I/O subsystem hung somewhere. Without
details I can't say what went wrong. If it happens again doing
this:

# echo w > /proc/sysrq-trigger

To get a dump of all the blocked processes on the console. That
may contain enough info to tell us what the problem is.

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> I can retry the test. Let me know if I can do a
> xfs_repair.

Sure, go ahead and fix it up.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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