[CentOS] Re: XFS Issues

Scott Silva
Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:06:18 -0000

Stephen C. Rigler spake the following on 11/8/2006 9:17
AM:
> We are in the process of migrating XFS filesystems from one storage
> array to another.  Both are arrays are mounted locally on the same
> CentOS 4.4 system (x86_64).  We are running kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp
> along with kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp-0.1-3.
>
> The issue we are having is that while the copy is running (using rsync)
> the system will log these message periodically:
>
> kernel: XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250)
> kernel: XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x2d0)
>
> Eventually the system will panic.  This looks similar to this bug:
> http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=410 which was apparently
> fixed in April.
>
> Is there any chance that the fix will make it into the centosplus
> kernel-module-xfs?
Why not try installing 2.6.9-42.0.3 and see if maybe it is fixed?


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