[OpenAFS] volserver caused ext3 oops?

[Jack Neely]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:47:35AM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Jack Neely wrote:
> 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I'm doing some early testing of using Linux and OpenAFS servers in our
> > environment of all solaris based, transarc servers.  We set up a script
> > to do some pounding on by moving a 500MB volume back and forth between
> > it and another server.  At 4:00 in the morning looks like volserver
> > caused a kernel oops in the ext3 code.  (Which I found to be really
> > weird.)
> > 
> > Can anyone shed some light on what might be up here?  
> 
> It looks like a pretty boring "not our fault" crash; I can't say I've seen
> such before. Particularly, I can't see how "caused" could be anything
> other than "happened to be the process that lost since it was the heaviest
> thing exercising the subsystem."
> 
> > We are running OpenAFS 1.2.7 on a Red Hat Linux 7.3-ish system, kernel
> > 2.4.18-10.

Well, I don't find having my afs server fall over boring.  

Are there any known issues with using ext3 or ext2 for AFS server
partitions?

Jack Neely

-- 
Jack Neely <slack@quackmaster.net>
Linux Realm Kit Administration and Development 
PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University
GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4  EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89