On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
> I've looked at older logs and those messages appeared at a boot of 3
> december, also followed by this:
>
> Dec 3 10:18:19 dotnet kernel: Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sd(8,38)
> (dev: 8/38)
> Dec 3 10:18:19 dotnet kernel: Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: sd(8,38)
> (dev: 8/38)
>
> What's the exact meaning of these messages? Does it mean the partition was
> not cleanly unmounted?
that does mean that it was not cleanly unmounted, and it is using
the journal/log for recovery. This is normal xfs operation.
> If the partition is not cleanly unmounted at each boot, could it result in a
> partition error like I had?
It should not; xfs is designed to replay the log to get a consistent
filesystem after an unclean shutdown.
Note that if you point xfs_check or xfs_repair at a filesystem with a
dirty log, you will see inconsistencies - both of these tools require
a clean log to operate. mount/umount to be sure your log is clean.
-Eric
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