xfs_repair of critical volume

Stan Hoeppner stan at hardwarefreak.com
Fri Nov 12 16:14:52 CST 2010


Michael Monnerie put forth on 11/12/2010 7:22 AM:

> I find the robustness of XFS amazing: You overwrote 1/5th of the disk 
> with zeroes, and it still works :-)

This isn't "robustness" Michael.  If anything it's a serious problem.
XFS is reporting that hundreds or thousands of files that have been
physically removed still exist.  Regardless of how he arrived at this
position, how is this "robust"?  Most people would consider this
inconsistency of state a "corruption" situation, not "robustness".

-- 
Stan




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