RE: xfs data loss

[Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 at 11:47, Passerone, Daniele wrote:
> Unfortunately xfs_ncheck was not killed, it went "D" state.
> The box has 16Gb.

"D" as in "waiting for I/O to complete". Were you able to confirm that, 
i.e. was there really noticable disk i/o happening during xfs_ncheck or 
was the process perhaps "stuck in D state"? I seem to remember that in 
those cases the output of sysrq-w could be interesting.

> Can I do something with my xfs_metadump [please be polite :-) ]

You've put the dump online, let's hope some XFS wizard finds time to have 
a look at this...I certainly can't read this :-\

Christian.
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