Re: XFS repair on / in a hosted environment

[Rupa Schomaker <rupa@xxxxxxxx>]

On 7/18/2007 7:34 PM, David Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:24:59PM -0700, Rupa Schomaker wrote:
>> I have a virtual server hosted in a XEN environment.  Kernel is
>> 2.6.16.13-XenU and I can't change it. :( Host provider is not responsive
>> to getting us a newer kernel.
>>
>> Anyway, during my nightly rsync backup, I started seeing the following:
> .....
> 
> what does /proc/mounts tell you (rather than /etc/mtab)?
> 
> If /proc/mounts says ro, then try upgrading your xfsprogs package.
> and then retrying the repair....

/proc/mounts shows ro.

What version is new enough?  I'm running debian sarge, so have:

# xfs_repair -V
xfs_repair version 2.9.0

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/

only shows a xfs_progs up to 2.8.21-1.

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.

Thanks,

-Rupa