xfs file system in process of becoming corrupt; though xfs_repair thinks it's fine! ; -/ (was xfs_dump problem...)

Linda Walsh xfs at tlinx.org
Wed Jul 7 00:56:34 CDT 2010


For what it's worth, my 'undeletable' files give every appearance of
being 'plain' UTF-8 encoded file names.  Wrote a perl script that looped
through and used the 'bytes' pragma to look at the bytes.  Looks like
valid UTF-8.  Also had it try to remove the files.  Didn't work.



Read 9 files
 1: 2e                                                >|.               |<
 2: 2e 2e                                             >|..              |<
 3: 42 6f 72 64 75 72 65 20  70 6f 69 6e 74 69 6c 6c  >|Bordure pointill|<
    c3 a9 65 20 2d 20 42 6c  61 6e 63 2d 6e 6f 69 72  >|..e - Blanc-noir|<

Unlink of "Bordure pointillée - Blanc-noir" failed: No such file or directory

 4: 42 6f 72 64 75 72 65 20  70 6f 69 6e 74 69 6c 6c  >|Bordure pointill|<
    c3 a9 65 20 2d 20 4e 6f  69 72 2d 62 6c 61 6e 63  >|..e - Noir-blanc|<

Unlink of "Bordure pointillée - Noir-blanc" failed: No such file or directory

 5: 43 61 64 72 65 20 63 65  6e 74 72 c3 a9 20 31 20  >|Cadre centr.. 1 |<
    2d 20 42 61 73 65                                 >|- Base          |<

Unlink of "Cadre centré 1 - Base" failed: No such file or directory
....rest of output truncated.




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