xfs_force_shutdown

[Eric Sandeen]

Hieu Le Trung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What may cause metadata becomes bad? I got xfs_force_shutdown with 0x2
> parameter.

Software bugs or hardware problems.  If you provide the actual kernel 
message we can offer more info on what xfs saw and why it shut down.

> How can I analyze the metadata dump file?

the metadump file is just the metadata skeleton of the filesystem; you 
can mount it, repair it, point xfs_db at it to debug it, etc.

-Eric