xfs_repair on a 1.5 TiB image has been hanging for about an hour, now

[Eric Sandeen]

Nicolas Stransky wrote:
> I'm running into the same problem exactly, except that it's not 10
> minutes, but DAYS.
> 
> What is the version that fixes this?

hard to say without knowing for sure what version you're using, and
what exactly "this" is that you're seeing :)

Providing an xfs_metadump of the corrupted fs that hangs repair
is also about the best thing you could do for investigation,
if you've already determined that the latest release doesn't help.

-Eric

> Thanks
> 
> On 2/12/10 12:02 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 17:45, Richard Hartmann
>> <richih.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought about that, but I fear that I will flood my terminal off with crap
>>> and/or that I somehow impair xfs_repair while doing so.
>> Running it for ten minutes gives me:
>>
>> root at grml ~ # strace -p13629
>> Process 13629 attached - interrupt to quit
>> futex(0xa381b4cc, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL^C <unfinished ...>
>> Process 13629 detached
>> root at grml ~ #
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