Am Mittwoch 26 November 2008 schrieb Barry Naujok:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:02:55 +1100, Martin Steigerwald
>
> <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I also checked my / XFS filesystem after that failed attempt to
> > hibernate via TuxOnIce (see my mail "truncated files"). Well BTW this
> > happened on a ThinkPad T42.
> >
> > While /home was fine, / had some rather minor - it seems - issues.
> > Whether
> > they have been from today or from whenever - I do not know.
>
> [snip]
>
> > My questions:
> >
> > 1) Whats those Badness in key lookup messages? Anything to worry
> > about?
>
> Generally not - the xfsprogs cache indexes read blocks by offset and
> I/O size. It will generate this warning if it encounters a read to the
> same offset with different I/O size. Basically there to tell me that
> there's a scenario where this may happen and should be fixed.
Ah okay. *feeling relieved*
> > 2) Why did xfs_repair -n after I ran xfs_repair yield yet another
> > error "would have reset inode 94530 nlinks from 2 to 3"? Why didn't
> > it appear in the first pass?
>
> There are remote cases where the first pass does not get the nlinks
> quite right - I would have needed a metadump before the first run to
> isolate where it miscounted the nlinks. All problems like this in
> the past have been related to lost+found.
Sorry for not taking it. I try to remember to take it when I stumble about
another time. I have lost+found available still, but it won't be of much
help I guess ;-).
> > martin@shambhala:~/Zeit/xfs-probleme-2008-11-25> grep 94530
> > xfsrepair-sda1-repair.txt
> > martin@shambhala:~/Zeit/xfs-probleme-2008-11-25#1>
> >
> > 3) Any idea how these problems occured in the first time?
>
> I think Dave pointed the cause out quite nicely :)
Well okay. Found TuxOnIce to be quite reliable till now. Might just had
back luck then. Good reassurance to take regular backups regardless of
what I think how reliable things are ;-).
> PS. Update the email address in your mailer to xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx,
> not xfs-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Did so. Sorry for double posting without cancelling the old posts.
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