Seg fault during xfs repair (segmentation fault / segv)

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Wed Jul 1 15:52:25 CDT 2009


Jesse Stroik wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> Thanks for addressing the issue with xfs_repair.
> 
> 
>> that's one crunchy filesystem you've got there; what happened to it?
> 
> 
> It's not entirely clear -- the JBOD and SAS controller seem to have 
> gotten into inconsistent states and I was observing a few SCSI errors 
> for those particular LUNs.  While the system was exhibiting the SCSI 
> errors, the user of this file system (and a few others like it on the 
> host) noticed file corruption when reading/writing certain files, then 
> spontaneous corruption after making copies of the files.
> 
> I'll take a look at the new xfs_check and see what happens.
> 
> Best,
> Jesse
> 

Turns out that it runs to completion, but another run still finds
corruption.  And a debug build trips asserts, so I guess there are still
issues.

-Eric




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