Re: FAQ updated (was Re: XFS breakage...)

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:25:35PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> Nathan Scott wrote:
> : I've captured the state of this issue here, with options and ways
> : to correct the problem:
> :     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#dir2
> : 
> : Hope this helps.
> 
>       I have been hit with this bug as well - I tried to clear the
> two corrupted directory inodes with xfs_db (as the FAQ entry says), then ran
> xfs_repair (lots of files ended up in lost+found), but apparently
> the volume is still not OK - when I tried to use it (this volume
> is a public FTP archive), I got the following traces:

There is now a fixed version of xfs_repair available - its in
xfsprogs-2.8.10, source is on oss.sgi.com in the XFS ftp area.
A number of people have reported success with Barry's earlier
patch, noone's reported anything bad, so 2.8.10 is out now with
the fix merged.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan