Re: XFS strangeness, xfs_db out of memory

From: Robin Rosenberg (robin.rosenberg.lists_at_dewire.com)
Date: 10/31/04

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    To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Date:	Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:58:05 +0100

    On Friday 29 October 2004 09.37, Nathan Scott wrote:
    > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:57:26AM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > I was testing a tiny script on top of xfs_fsr to show fragmentation and
    > > the resultss of defragmentation. As a result of fine tuning the output I
    > > ran the script repeatedly and suddenly got error from find (unknown error
    > > 999 if my memory serves me. It scrolled off the screen).
    > > ...
    > > xfs_info $dev
    > > xfs_db -r $dev -c "frag -v"
    >
    > This is accessing the device while the filesystem is mounted,
    > in older kernels (like the one you have) that would cause the
    > above corruption error in XFS - thats resolved now.

    You don't happen to know when or where (patch) this was fixed? I'm usually
    using Mandrake stock kernels, so I'm looking for something to attach to a
    bug report. I was looking around without luck.

    -- robin

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