John R Pierce: > we're running into a scenario similar to this with CentOS 6, zero length > files after a system crash. > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-02/msg00607.html > > I'm not exactly sure which kernel version they are running in production > (its in China), but I'm trying to find out. its probably a year or so > old, our manufacturing operations folks do NOT like installing random > updates without very good reasons. > > meanwhile, I wonder if anyone familiar with it knows if the fix that > Dave Chinner discusses in that posting I link above has been backported > to a recent EL6 kernel. This was fixed in EL6 kernels a while ago - see: <http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1401.html> James Pearson