-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, It seems the problem was that the reiserfs filesystem was mounted without explicitly enabling xattrs. As Bertl explained on IRC: "<Bertl> i.e. the attributes are cached as long as the inode stays in memory" thus we could see the barrier enabled until umount/reboot. So mounting it with attrs resolved the issue on latest kernel + patest patch + latest utils. Cheers, - -Nik On 10/05/2010 04:51 PM, Chuck wrote: > On Tuesday, October 05, 2010, Nikolay Kichukov wrote: >> Hi Chuck, >> I am running 2.6.33.2-vs2.3.0.36.30.4 with 0.30.216-pre2864; Jan 22 2010, 10:53:15 and > all my guests are on reiserfs >> type reiserfs (rw,tag) . >> >> >> I actually never checked if the barrier existed after a reboot. So there you go: >> >> showattr -a vservers/ >> ----buicX ./vservers >> >> The barrier is gone. So I could reproduce this. >> > > thank you.. i thought i was going crazy and did something stupid. unfortunately I cannot > take time these next few months to engage testing as Herbert suggested due to my current > work schedule (insane). thankfully i dont have to reboot these more than once or twice a > year. hopefully someone will engage testing to see what causes this. > > > >> Cheers, >> -Nik >> On 09/29/2010 09:25 PM, Chuck wrote: >>> On Wednesday, September 29, 2010, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: >>>> Chuck wrote: >>>>> i have not experienced this before. every time i reboot the barrier attribute on >>> /vservers >>>>> goes away and has to be reset. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> i have noatime,attrs set in fstab. >>>>> >>>>> the kernel and utilities versions are: >>>>> >>>>> 2.6.35-vs2.3.0.36.31-gentoo >>>>> >>>>> util-vserver-0.30.216_pre2910 >>>>> >>>>> any clues? >>>> >>>> What filesystem? >>>> >>> >>> oops.. sorry forgot.. reiserfs, the filesystem we use everywhere. it is the first time >>> though using the newer versions of kernel and utilities. >>> >>>> -- >>>> Daniel Hokka Zakrisson >>>> >>> >>> >> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMtubcAAoJEDFLYVOGGjgXRE8IAM/5DPgypDBJzn0+AdLFaZ/g 3+DaW4VE0bZ1ju7tSJskJgNVa3ZJRNwV0TrHRwax4H21mcrEbMADsnrt1oJ7FBLs RCFS1m61XCHU5iieapO163Lmz2PZq0wjw3EYmQyda3GUNUswJQTZT4fKasiX6HAu SkiwQVislfs33CVlFpPVd3kNhYwnxDXuvlXqRDuK6mIzUPeynCiIl+fhxC9qqVTH 5XaNYi+OPhPb37UGUQ2ltObj2ilWEz8TJ0U6OjWDHA3111UzINiEM+vNSpm3c5ey ZD6p2yJlPPnLiER1To/Yynsw2Hp8MKaR+B1yXG/EOMXIEfkx6uxZ3JjrdNXXqxA= =7H3t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----