On 09/18/2012 01:49 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 04:56:19PM +0200, Richard Ems wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> saturday morning one hard disc on our RAID6 failed. About one hour later,
>> the XFS running on that device reported the following error:
>>
>> XFS (sdd1): Internal error xfs_da_do_buf(2) at line 2097 of file
>> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-default-3.3.6/linux-3.3/fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c.
> .....
>> Sep 15 07:30:51 fs1 kernel: [7369085.792619] XFS (sdd1): Corruption
>> detected. Unmount and run xfs_repair
>>
>>
>> And this repeating again and again ...
>>
>> This system has been running fine for 87 days, no power outages or such.
>> It's connected to an UPS, and the H800 Raid Controller has a BBU installed.
> .....
>> Why could this have happened?
>
> Something went wrong at the RAID level (i.e. your hardware) in
> handling the disk failure and recovering the array. It corrupted
> blocks in the volume rather than recovering them cleanly without
> errors. The corrupted blocks happened to be in a directory block,
> and a frequently accessed one according to the errors in the log.
>
> What you found in lost+found was the recoverable fragments of the
> directory and whatever else was corrupted during the disk failure
> incident.
>
>> What more info can I provide to understand this issue and avoid
>> this to happen again?
>
> I'd be asking your hardware vendor about why it corrupted the
> volume on a single disk failure when it is supposed to be able to
> transparently handle double disk failures without losing/corrupting
> data.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
Ok, many thanks Dave. I will forward this conversation to the DELL guys ...
Thanks again,
Richard
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