xfs_check segfault / xfs_repair I/O error

[Drew Wareham]

Hey Eric,

Good point!  We're running CentOS 5, so is the CentOS-Plus repo the way to
go?  These servers are all setup from a fairly old base image hence using
kmod-xfs, definitely something I'll address.

Cheers


On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net> wrote:

> On 4/15/12 8:15 AM, Drew Wareham wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Hopefully this is the correct kind of information to send to this list.
> >
> > I have an issue with a large XFS volume (17TB) that mounts, but is not
> readable.  I can view the folder structure on the volume but I can't access
> any of the actual data.  A disk failed in a RAID5 array and while it has
> rebuilt now, it looks like it's caused serious data integrity issues.
> >
> > Here is the CentOS release / Kernel version:
> >     [root at svr608 ~]# uname -a
> >     Linux svr608 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 04:16:51 EST 2012
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >     [root at svr608 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> >     CentOS release 5.8 (Final)
> >     [root at svr608 ~]# cat /tmp/yum.list | grep xfs | grep installed
> >     kmod-xfs.x86_64                            0.4-2
>   installed
>
> You reall, Really, REALLY, *REALLY* want to remove kmod-xfs.
>
> RHEL5 has been shipping with supported xfs for what, 2 years now, and that
> old kmod-xfs
> is an ancient, ancient piece of unmaintained, bitrotting code.  Sadly it
> overrides
> the kernel rpm's xfs.ko.  I don't know if this is the root cause of your
> problem; probably
> not, but eventually it will likely be the root cause of some other problem
> :)
>
> -Eric
>
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