xfs_repair breaks; xfs_metadump hangs

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, mill / in-medias-res wrote:

> Hello XFS-Community,
>
> i have some real trouble with restoring/repairing my two XFS Partion's. These
> Partion's are on a RAID-5 Array which "was broken". The first xfs_repair run
> on /dev/sdc1 did restore 80 GB from ca. 300-400 GB. The Problem was that 99,9%
> of the million files are in lost+found.

Time to invoke the disaster recovery plan and restore from backups?

At some point the effort required to recover a badly corrupt FS exceeds 
the loss from simply restoring from a known good backup.

You can still review the corrupt filesystem offline in order to pick up 
lost data, if it is worth doing so.

Rob

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