On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 07:00:59PM -0500, Ajay Shekhawat wrote:
> I'm trying to recover an XFS filesystem that might have gotten corrupted
> due to a bad RAID controller. The system is running Linux kernel v2.4.19
> with the associated XFS patches. It was originally running 2.4.17 with the
> XFS patches. It is a fairly big filesystem (about 1TB).
> On boot, the OS refuses to mount it: says bad superblock.
Can you send (cut & paste) the exact error message from your
system logs? This will show exactly which point in the XFS
mount code an error is being flagged. -- thanks.
> "xfs_repair -n" didn't offer to do much either (it didn't complain loudly
> about the inodes or something), and I didn't run xfs_repair without the
> "-n" for fear of trashing the whole thing.
Its strange that xfs_repair is unable to detect any problem
but the mount is failing - the kernel mount path basically does
a simplified version of the consistency checks that xfs_repair
does; so if mount says the SB is bogus, repair should notice
it too.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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