xfs_repair breaks; xfs_metadump hangs

mill / in-medias-res mill at in-medias-res.com
Fri Nov 6 03:09:05 CST 2009


I forgot to mention, that i actually have an metadump. But it is only written till xfs_db hangs.
It's filesize is 399M, is that enough to work with that?

Best Regards,
Max

* mill / in-medias-res <mill at in-medias-res.com> [091104 16:20]:
> 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.
> 
> Because i was more interested in restoring /dev/sdc2, i did forget about sdc1
> and run xfs_repair on the other Partion:
> 
> cmd: xfs_repair -t 1 -P /dev/sdc2
> [...]
> corrupt inode 3256930831 ((a)extents = 1).  This is a bug.
> Please capture the filesystem metadata with xfs_metadump and
> report it to xfs at oss.sgi.com.
> cache_node_purge: refcount was 1, not zero (node=0x377d0008)
> fatal error -- couldn't map inode 3256930831, err = 117
> 
> time: 67,27s user 10,09s system 10% cpu 12:05,31 total
> 
> I tried to run xfs_metadump serveral times and it hangs everytime on this position:
> xfs_metadump  -g /dev/sdc2 metadump-sdc2-2
> Copied 1411840 of 4835520 inodes (0 of 3 AGs)
> 
> It runs till 2 days on the same inode and xfs_db consumes 99% of CPU.
> Should i wait here?
> 
> Versions:
> dpkg -l |grep xfs
> ii  xfsdump   3.0.2~bpo50+1       Administrative utilities for the XFS filesys
> ii  xfsprogs  3.0.4~bpo50+1       Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
> Distribution: Debian lenny with xfsprogs, xfsdump backport from unstable.
> 
> The xfs_repair with stock Debian Lenny version also does crash at inode 3256930831.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Maximilian Mill




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