Re: XFS log warning "Writing back config space on device"

Eric Sandeen-3 wrote:

amilrego wrote:
> Hello.
> I have formated one 300 GB partition in Linux OS, and then i worked whitout
> problems.
> But, If I do a "dmesg" there is a warning error (i don´t know if is really a
> problem or maybe could cause problems in future):
>
> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
>  sdb: sdb1
>  ---
>
> XFS mounting filesystem sdb1
> Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sdb1
> PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:05:02.0 at offset b (was
> 165314e4, writing 12bc103c)

That's not an xfs message; it's from the PCI subsystem.  It shouldn't be
related to anything xfs is doing...  It's also only a debug-level
message (at least in 2.6.18).

-eric