Re: right way to report bugs

[Jan Derfinak <ja@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Eric Sandeen wrote:

Hello.

> In the past I have used xfs_db to change the nblocks or nextents for this
> inode to match (usually both 0), and re-run repair.  Not the best solution I
> know, but one possible way out of the problem.

Thanks. Your advice works. It rescued fs.

> But in this case, it's xfs_repair's job to fix inconsistent things; I don't
> know why it bails out on this one.  We've found a couple of other cases like
> this recently as well.

Hmm, it would be nice to have algorithm from your advice in xfs_repair.
Thanks, again.

jan