Re: can't seek in filesystem at bb 8207728640

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:46:44AM +0100, Jan Derfinak wrote:
> Hi all.

hi there,

> # xfs_db -r /dev/hda8
> xfs_db: freesp
> can't seek in filesystem at bb 8207728640
> can't read btree block 0/1025966080
> can't seek in filesystem at bb 29141501952
> can't read btree block 0/3642687744
> ...
> I found this message on one of my xfs partions. Please can anybody explain
> me that?

It is almost certainly an xfs_db bug that was fixed recently.

> How dangerous is that for my data?

Not dangerous, its likely to be a problem in xfs_db, so not on-disk.

> xfs_db is from xfsprogs-2.3.6

Try xfsprogs-2.3.7, from xfsprogs/doc/CHANGES...

xfsprogs-2.3.7 (14 November 2002)
        - Fix an endian bug in xfs_db freesp command when descending
          into multi-level agf cnt/bno btrees.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan