Re: xfs_repair never finishes on lvm partition

[Knowledge Seeker <knoseeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help.

The good news is running -P option works and the FS is ok.
The Bad news is that names of files were lost, all the files were moved to lost+find.
Is there any easy way to recover it, or the solution is the hard way?

Sorry about the xfs_metadump, I ran the xfs_repair, before read all messages.
If it happens again (I hope it doesnt), the first thing I'll do is send it.

Thank you again.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:57:42AM +0000, Knowledge Seeker wrote:
>> Extra information:
>> The versions:
>> # xfs_repair -V
>> xfs_repair version 2.9.8
>
> upgrade to a more recent version - that is positively ancient ;)
>
> Then if it still freezes in pahse 6, run with the -P option to turn
> off prefetching (slower, but should prevent the hang).

And before that, if you'd like to preserve something for us to
look at, run

# xfs_metadump /dev/blah imagefile

to capture the state of the fs which was causing problems.

-Eric

> Cheers,
>
> Dave.

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