In comp.os.linux.misc Captain Dondo <yan@nsoesipnaemr.com>:
> Michael Heiming wrote:

[..]

> That particular machine is running 2.6.15.1....

>>>Feb 20 17:08:50 tooth kernel: XFS internal error XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO at line 1617 of file fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c.
>>>Caller 0xf8926bda
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>>
>> Did you check what is happening in and around this line in th
>> mentioned source file?

> No.... I googled around a bit and that particular error seems to appear
> randomly and catastrophically. What surprised me was that the file
> system went from perfectly fine to completely dead, with no warning or
> grace at all, in mid-operation.

You could check then the Changelog for the latest version and
'diff' the files in question with your version if there's
anything changed. You could open up a bug report to the xfs
maintainer if nothing changes and/or the problem persists.

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>> Another file to look at. In general ext3 seems the most stable.

> I've switched to JFS for now. We'll see if it blows up too.

Personally didn't have much luck with JFS, anything with it ended
in a disaster. Ext3 on the other hand just works, so this is what
I use mostly.

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