Re: Lost files on long running systems

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:

> After long running periods, [Which on Intel Hardware, with battery 
> backups is 90 - 180 days], I will run into a situation with an upgrade 
> where I have to reboot.   Usually, since I have downtime, I have been 
> running xfs_repair.  What I almost always find will be a couple hundred 
> files and directories moved to lost+found.
Just to start with, are you using the -L option to repair?  Were the 
filesystems cleanly unmounted before you repaired?  What prompted you to 
run repair in the first place?  :)
-Eric