[DRBD-user] Another oops!

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Feb 10 22:41:53 CET 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


/ 2004-02-10 11:17:38 -0800
\ Brian Thomas:
> So we had another kernel oops, although this one I unfortunately was
> not able to diagnose; it never made it into the logfile. I did see two
> kinds of log messages. About 1000 of these:
> 
> Feb 10 05:56:55 rin kernel: is_tree_node: node level 4562 does not match to the expected one 1
> Feb 10 05:56:55 rin kernel: drbd(43,1):vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 28538659. Fsck?
> Feb 10 05:56:55 rin kernel: drbd(43,1):vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [10763889 10764043 0x0 SD]
> Feb 10 05:56:55 rin kernel: is_tree_node: node level 4562 does not match to the expected one 1
> Feb 10 05:56:55 rin kernel: drbd(43,1):vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 28538659. Fsck?
> Feb 10 05:56:55 rin kernel: drbd(43,1):vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [10763889 10764044 0x0 SD]
> Feb 10 05:56:55 rin kernel: is_tree_node: node level 4562 does not match to the expected one 1
> Feb 10 05:56:55 rin kernel: drbd(43,1):vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 28538659. Fsck?
> Feb 10 05:56:55 rin kernel: drbd(43,1):vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [10763889 10764045 0x0 SD]
> 
> And another 100 or so of these:
> 
> Feb 10 05:42:57 rin kernel: drbd(43,1):vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [2050566 2050611 0x0 SD ]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
> Feb 10 05:42:57 rin kernel: drbd(43,1):vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [2050566 2050612 0x0 SD ]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
> Feb 10 05:42:57 rin kernel: drbd(43,1):vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [2050566 2050613 0x0 SD ]. This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore
> 
> Of the first kind, the 'invalid format' messages, we saw about 20 of
> them last night about 7pm, then nothing until 5:40 this morning, when
> 1000+ of them came in. In the MIDDLE of this huge spat of messages you
> see the second kind, the nfs race condition messages. All the batch
> starting at 5:40 or so came in quick succession; basically a constant
> spew until 5:56 when everthing came to a screeching halt.
> 
> I know it appears the most likely culprit is an underlying disk
> problem, but this is unlikely -- The underlying block devices are
> hardware RAID volumes, not just disks, and nothing on the RAID side
> reports any problem. Also, there are no log messages at all indicating
> disk problems. Only drbd complained, and drbd is what panicked the
> system with a null pointer deref.

in the above log excerpt, I don't see drbd complaining about
anything. drbd(43,1) is mentioned by reiserfs as its device.
If you want to read some comments, have a look at
/usr/src/linux/fs/reiserfs/inode.c and search for "reiserfs_read_inode2"
in reiserfs warning messages.  To me this smells like reiserfs corruption.

and, reiserfs asked you to fsck...
maybe you need to fsck after each failover, even with reiserfs.
maybe reiserfs just does not like HUGE partitions, especially if
it has to share it with knfsd, and you have *many* interrupts ...


Or did you mean you got an oops related to strange drbd "barrier"
packets, like the one you showed us before?

In that case: are you sure that your tl-size is good, on both nodes?
I suggest tl-size 5000 or even 12000 or some such.
If you ever encounter "tl-size too small!" message: it is too small.
(this is because in 0.6 it is still an array;
 in 0.7 we use a dynamic list for it)

	Lars Ellenberg



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