crashes with xfs_fsr in 2.6.25-2-amd64 and 2.6.26-1-amd64 (debian) (f'up)

[Nathaniel W. Turner]

Hi Marc,

Marc Lehmann wrote:
> It also happens to the same filesystem each time (maybe because
> it does the heavy I/O),a and it is also the same filesystem where
> xfs_repair hangs in an endless loop often (but not always). (see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525880)
>
> The filesystem was created a month or so ago using blocksize of 512 and
> lazy-count=1, but I have many of those xfs filesystems.
>
> Since this is a production system and I have no backup abilities, I have
> to no choice but to reformat the disk now.
>   
I'm not sure about the root cause of your crash, but I just wanted to 
mention that before you blow away this filesystem, you should probably 
try repairing it with a recent version of xfs_repair (like 3.0.0). 

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

Also, I have seen similar problems to those described in Debian bug 
525880 with xfs_repair not making progress (although I'm running 
32-bit), and adding "-P" to the xfs_repair invocation helped in many cases.

Cheers,
nate

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