Re: xfs_repair takes long time

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:29:00AM -0500, Kiran.Chandapu@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello Christoph, 
> 
> Thanks, I would try to upgrade it. Could you please tell me whether we can 
> recover the data, actually we have all our data about 12 TB resides on that 
> volume which has the issue. 

Given your description of missing LV metadata I suspect that you
actually have lost part if not all of the filesystem.  Running
xfs_repair -nv will give you more information about, but if you have
indeed destroyed the lvm block mapping it won't be able to do much.