xfs_repair never finishes on lvm partition

[Eric Sandeen]

Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:57:42AM +0000, Knowledge Seeker wrote:
>> Extra information:
>> The versions:
>> # xfs_repair -V
>> xfs_repair version 2.9.8
> 
> upgrade to a more recent version - that is positively ancient ;)
> 
> Then if it still freezes in pahse 6, run with the -P option to turn
> off prefetching (slower, but should prevent the hang).

And before that, if you'd like to preserve something for us to
look at, run 

# xfs_metadump /dev/blah imagefile

to capture the state of the fs which was causing problems.

-Eric

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.