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RE: XFS corruption on 2.4.28

To: Renaat Dumon <renaat.dumon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: XFS corruption on 2.4.28
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:58:17 -0600 (CST)
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In-reply-to: <20051031231244.8BE4F1774EF@postit.belbone.be>
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Renaat Dumon wrote:
> Well , about trying a stock kernel, I'm affraid this is going to be hard. I
> get these systems installed - we're talking about a backup appliance here -
> and the software is set up around gentoo ...

Ah, ok - did not know it was an appliance.  What is it, out of curiosity? :)

> About the lost+found , that happens when I leave the system accumulating the
> errors for a week or so. If I don't wait that long and then remount, I'm
> good for another day... That's why xfs_repair isn't spewing stuff...

Ok, I was interested in what repair -did- say when it moves stuff to 
lost&found/....

> I will mount the filesystem without the geometry options, and see how that
> goes. Since this is a backup appliance and it's now 00:06 AM here, you can
> imagine I can't do that just right now with all these backups going on..

That's fine, I don't want to impede your workflow...

> I managed to find another systems had already occurred or not yet.
> 
> I changed the line for /Storage in /etc/fstab
> 
> From: /dev/md3 /Storage xfs rw,noatime,sunit=128,swidth=256 0 0
> To: /dev/md3 /Storage xfs rw,noatime 0 0
>  
> 
> Now waiting for some activity ...

Hm, if you haven't remounted it then it won't take affect yet... but that's ok. 
 I'll see if I can reproduce anything here w/ your fs geometry - you may as 
well put it back with swidth/sunit until then (unless you feel like 
experimenting with your backups) :)

-Eric



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