Re: corrupt xfs filesystem -- xfs_repair dumps core

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

hi,

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:05:02PM +0200, Willi Langenberger wrote:
> > 
> > Failing that, try "xfs_repair -L /dev/sdb" which skips the check for
> > an empty log, zeroes it, then goes ahead with repairing.
> 
> Unfortunatly the '-L' makes no difference:

Oh, I see -- that check only comes into play later... hmmm, will have
to try plan C.

> > Failing that (!) we can get libxlog built non-debug so this assertion
> > doesn't get tripped, and see how we go from there.
> 
> Ok, i will see if i can do this...

I've checked in a Makefile change to do this -- so, checkout CVS
xfsprogs, rebuild from scratch, esp. ensuring libxlog and xfs_repair
are completely rebuilt, then try the newly built xfs_repair binary
and see if you have better luck.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan