Re: REASSIGN 801241 - xfsdump can cause filesystem corruption

[Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

William L Jones wrote:

> One small observation.   If I create a xfs file system and then untar a set
> of files to it and then run xfs_check I get errors.  They look like the same
> error that I get if run xfsdump and then remove the files before running
> xfs_check.

xfs_check will report errors if run on a mounted file system.
xfs_repair shouldn't be run on a mounted file system, it will
most likely cause fs corruption and or cause the system
to crash when it finds an inconsistency.


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> If I umount the file system and run xfs_repair I don't find any errors.
>
> Bill Jones