Stephen Lord wrote:
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 04:36, Michael Wahlbrink wrote:
Hi,
After some trouble with the writecache of the IDE HDDs, I booted my
'repairsystem' and tried the usual xfs_repair (-L) commands out of the
bash-history, but this time they fail.
[....]
Any chance left to get my system / data back or have I to do the mkfs
again? ;-/
regards
micha
How recent is your xfs repair, some changes went in last week in
this area. Log recovery on linux was reworked to reduce the need
for large buffers (which is a kernel issue), but repair uses the
same code. Up until last week there were some bugs in there which
meant some log problems could not be handled.
It's the xfs_repair released with xfs 1.1 .....
I checked out today the cvs tree and check the new one ;-)
I realize that getting a new repair into your system might be
a problem. Something like the linuxcare bootable toolbox
might be useful in this sort of scenario, I think it has
networking support.
Thats no problem, I've my old SCSI disk as a bootable repair system wich
I used often before (as my write cache was not disabled) so I will
simply compile the new xfsprogs on this rescue HDD ;-)
regards
micha
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