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RE: been a while before i could get back to this..

To: "'Chris Wedgwood'" <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: been a while before i could get back to this..
From: "l.a walsh" <xfs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:01:11 -0800
Cc: "'Eric Sandeen'" <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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In-reply-to: <20030224093724.GA13363@f00f.org>
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> From: Chris Wedgwood [mailto:cw@xxxxxxxx] 
> p.s. your MUA send garbage charactaers at times
===
        MUA uses UTF-8 -- mostly ascii compat, but if your MUA
is old, it might not grok UTF-8.  

> have you tried xfs_repair on / yet?

You mean like this (or was there something different you wanted
me to try?):

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of l.a walsh
> Sent: February 19, 2003 11:11a
> To: 'Seth Mos'; linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: been a while before i could get back to this..
> 
> > It sounds to me like your filesystem is indeed damaged. I 
> > suggest repairing 
> > it with xfs_repair.
> ---
>       It's my root file system, it's a bit hard to unmount, but
> xfs_check has no output and xfs_repair seems to just show progress:
> # xfs_repair -nf /dev/sda1
> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
> Phase 2 - using internal log
>         - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps...
>         - found root inode chunk
> Phase 3 - for each AG...
>         - scan (but don't clear) agi unlinked lists...
>         - process known inodes and perform inode discovery...
>         - agno = 0
>         - agno = 1
>         - agno = 2
>         - agno = 3
>         - process newly discovered inodes...
> Phase 4 - check for duplicate blocks...
>         - setting up duplicate extent list...
>         - check for inodes claiming duplicate blocks...
>         - agno = 0
>         - agno = 1
>         - agno = 2
>         - agno = 3
> No modify flag set, skipping phase 5
> Phase 6 - check inode connectivity...
>         - traversing filesystem starting at / ... 
>         - traversal finished ... 
>         - traversing all unattached subtrees ... 
>         - traversals finished ... 
>         - moving disconnected inodes to lost+found ... 
> Phase 7 - verify link counts...
> No modify flag set, skipping filesystem flush and exiting.
> ---
> 
> > You will probably get the filesystem shutdown when using 
> tar as well. 
> > The problem crops up because the moment it tries to read 
> the file it 
> > immediatly triggers a filesystem corruption error state. So 
> it (probably)
> > won't matter 
> > if you would use tar or xfsdump, it would barf anyhow.
> ---
>       File system seems fine...It's been used without noticable
> problems since problem appeared in _October_.  Wasn't real concerned
> since rootfs mostly contains stuff that doesn't change much   (distro
> and config files, configs backed up).
> 
>       It's just xfs_dump that dumps...(or doesn't).  Wish it wasn't
> so rude as to just assume my FS is bad and unmount it -- as everything
> else seems fine.  
> 
> Approx 187,000 names ("find / -xdev|wc") with over
> 10,000 dirs, /dev/sda3    tot=5.5G  used=4.1G  avail=1.5G  75% /
> 
> -l
> 
> 
> 


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