Re: [2.6.10-rc2] XFS filesystem corruption

[Eric Sandeen]

Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
> Nathan Scott schrieb:
>
> > Did you see
> > any of those device errors since switching to ext3?
>
>
> No. That's why I am wondering. I read about such errors like I got 
> before in lkml and usually they were not fs related but libata siimage 
> driver related. It could be just a coincidence that it came up with xfs, 
> but till now (I guess 5 days now, though not 24/7 running) ext3 is 
> behaving nicely.

It's almost certainly not a filesystem problem, but an IO layer problem. 
 Maybe you only see it with xfs due to different disk IO patterns with 
xfs vs. ext3...  the two will certainly be allocating & writing to the 
disk in different ways.

-Eric
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