broken XFS filesystem not to be repaired by xfs_repair 3.1.2

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Wed Sep 1 20:52:07 CDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 02:26:46AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> http://zmi.at/x/big.xfs.metadump.bz2
> 
> After I did the big "rm -r" on that 4TB volume, 4 subdirs with a file in 
> each are still left even after 20 "xfsrepair;mount;rm -r;umount" cycles. 
> So I dare to say it can't be repaired here.

Ok, so those inodes have corrupted data/attribute forks - I'd say
they are victims of the xfs_fsr swapext problems with dynamic
attribute forks.

I'll use the image to write a fix for repair to detect and correct
the problem.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com




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