On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:25:42PM -0700, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I don't have access to the machine.
so, some machine, not yours, but one you heard about all of a sudden
maybe had something go wrong, files are missing but there are no other
clues... this is really hard to assist with
> Q1. Where are the logs that were mentioned?
wherever the machine logs kernel messages to, depends on the distro
but usually something like /var/log/kern.log or even /var/log/syslog
you could also try: "dmesg -s 262144 > file" on the machine if it
wasn't rebooted
> Q2. Can you answer the questions about the mounting? It is normally
> safe to access an XFS disk through /dev/sd(xx), right?
depends what you mean, obviously you mound it that way but if it's
mounted you shouldn't access the raw device as it can cause
corruptions or even oopsen
> But df would report the same space occupied as before.
is the machine still up, can you try "lsof +L1" on that machine and
see if there are deleted but still referrence files?
if not, unount the disk and run xfs_repair and see it relocates the
lost stuff to /lost+found
> I will hunt around for some logs on a duplicate machine here, and
> see if I can find any XFS messages. Which log shoudl I look at?
does the duplicate machine have the same problem? if not, then there
isn't any point
> If I can manage to get a disk to fail here, then I will let you
> know.
this is the *only* error report i've heard like this, i don't want to
say it's not XFS but it's a very strange bug and I can't see how XFS
can loose an entire directory structure w/o spewing many more messages
or something more serious if something was wrong
i really do wonder if the data wasn't deleted at some point,
everything looks like that
--cw
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