Re: fatal error -- xfs_repair: duplicate inode range

[Kelly Corbin <kcorbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I ran into this same problem and was curious exactly why/what happened. 
 Does overwriting the superblock cause the corruption or was there 
corruption AND the superblock was overwritten?  Would the newer 
xfs_repair have fixed more files/directories if it had been used the 
first time?  Would this happen in any other case besides a kernel panic?

Thanks!

Kelly

Steve Lord wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:36, Michael Best wrote:
>
> > It appears that either the mailing list manager threw away my earlier
> > posting to the mailing list or that there is no hope for recovery of my
> > filesystem.
>
> Or people took the weekend off.
>
> You need a newer xfs_repair, and I suspect a newer kernel. You have
> corruption in your filesystems, and older kernels can write over
> block zero if they shutdown.
>
> Steve
>
>
> > Any pointers would be appreciated.  ssh access to this machine is
> > available.  
> >
> > Trying to get a dump of the filesystem right now with dd.
> >
> > -----
> >
> > On the failed system and on this new system I am running the SGI_XFS
> > 1.0.2 +
> > Redhat 7.2 installer.
> >
> > -----
> >
> > I was called Sunday morning for a machine that had failed.
> >
> > You could ping it from the network but nothing else.
> >
> > I rebooted it, and got a XFS Page alloc kernel panic I believe. (unsure
> > it's been hours since then).
> >
> > I rebooted it in single user mode, read some logfiles and then rebooted
> > it into multi user mode.
> >
> > A short while later the machine appeared to fail again, when rebooted it
> > could no longer load the initrd in order to mount the root (/)
> > filesystem to boot.
> >
> > I used a Mandrake 8.2rc1 disc to boot the system, after finding the
> > mount command on the 1.0.2 installer disc was hopeless.
> >
> > I ran XFS repair, which suggested something good had happened.  And then
> > it suggested mounting it.  No luck.  It suggested I could use xfs_repair
> > -L to try and mount it after that.
> >
> > I tried that, no luck.  All further attempts produce output like this: 
> >
> > fatal error -- xfs_repair:  duplicate inode range
> >
> > Here are the logs from xfs_check and xfs_repair for this filesystem.
> >
> > http://www.emergence.com/xfs_trouble/xfs_check_sda5.txt
> > http://www.emergence.com/xfs_trouble/xfs_repair_sda5.txt
> >
> > The machine was originally running a single Quantum Atlas V on Ultra 160
> > Scsi chain.  I have moved this machine to two Maxtor 20G drives with
> > Raid 1 mirroring.  The Scsi chain is still in the machine with the
> > broken filesystem drive and I can make it available/prepare a filesystem
> > dump (perhaps someone can explain how to do that).  Hopefully I have
> > enough space on my drive for that.
> >
> > I saw other people with this error in the mailing list archives but
> > didn't see if there was a solution to this problem.
> >
> > --
> > Michael Best
> > Systems Administrator           ph 780-413-6397 x230
> > Emergence By Design            fax 780-433-7548
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> > Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 0L5


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