On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:11:17AM +0200, Hungerburg wrote:
> hello there,
>
> I hope this is not the wrong place, yet I have to write this now, before
> I forget about it:
xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx is the best place.
> I had to swap a dying harddrive. after receiving many mails from the
> smart daemon, recent kernel patches to xfs made me aware of the full
> extent of the problem.
Hmm, the second part of that sentence doesn't make sense to me.
> keywords:
> - XFS internal error XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_RETURN
> - Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> - Device: /dev/hda, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors
This looks like expected behaviour - XFS shut down the filesystem on
detecting IO errors on filesystem metadata blocks.
> the tools to copy what is still there (data) are a boon - they require
> some reading, but the thing is doable (xfs_copy to good disk, then
> xfs_dump from there)
OK, good to hear.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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