Superblock restore takes too long

Carlos Maiolino cmaiolino at redhat.com
Thu Jul 19 08:58:57 CDT 2012


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:30:59AM +0000, Zak, Semion wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Corrupted Superblock restore takes too long because xfs_restore searches the
> disc for reserved Superblock.
> 
> Is it possible accelerate the search, for example by giving to xfs_restore some
> hint (reserved Superblock LBA)?
> 
Afaik there is no way to tell xfs_repair which superblock to use, but to be
honest how would you know which secondary superblock isn't corrupted? I can be
very wrong in this though


-- 
--Carlos



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