Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ok - after a week of use on a squid running machine (for about 50
>> users) i rebooted this otherwise full xfs machine and checked the
>> xfs filesystems on it - here are the results so far:
>>
>> / filesystem
>>
> Just thinking about this, if you did the xfs_repair on a live filesystem
> then you really cannot rely on it being correct. Repair uses the block
> device interface which will not use the same caching as XFS is using
> for its meta-data. In general, repair should not be run on a live
> filesystem (repair -n can be since it does not modify anything).
> Also if a filesystem was not cleanly unmounted then it should be
> remounted and unmounted again before running repair - as the log
> may contain the missing parts of the picture.
no - all tests were done after a clean reboot into an ext2 based
system - so no repair_xfs is done with the fs online
> In theory XFS should unmount correctly, although I think there are some
> issues with making a remount read-only look like a clean unmount - this
> may be what is happening on the root disk.
maybe i'll have a closer look at what exactly redhat is doing here
> p.s. Lilo does work from XFS!
oh - thats is fine
t
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