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Subject: Re: XFS repair problem.
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djani22@dynamicweb.hu schrieb:
> Hello all!
> 
> I have a "big" filesystem (8TB), and a BIG problem!
> I can't fix it!
> 
> [root@dy-base xfsprogs-2.5.6]# xfs_check /dev/md31
-------------------------^

please use current version of xfsprogs:

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/xfsprogs-2.6.36.src.tar.gz

> xfs_check: out of memory
> [root@dy-base xfsprogs-2.5.6]# free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       4149468    4015820     133648          0         16    3718360
> -/+ buffers/cache:     297444    3852024
> Swap:            0          0          0

does it help, if you enable some swapspace?

> But, in this time, the xfs_repair is fails ALWAYS too!
> I have tryed  it 23 times!
> 
> The different results:
> 
> 1. Simple segfault.

did you check for bad memory? an overnight run of memtest86+ could tell...

> The data on fs and the service is VERY important for me.

hm, how did you *backup* 8TB of data anyway?

> Dual xeon, 4G ram.
> The xfs is on RAID 0, 32k chunks

any chance you can run top(1) next to xfs_repair to see how many memory is
used?

thanks,
Christian.
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