xfs_repair has been running for a very long time, no disk IO.

[Dave Chinner]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:17:26PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> 
> On a quite badly mangled filesystem, xfs_repair (v. 3.1.4) seems to
> never end. It has run for 16 hours with absolutely no disk activity.
> 
> Usually xfs_repair takes much less than one hour on a similar (9 TB)
> filesystem.
> 
> I know I should try the latest version. What else can be wrong? 
> What should I try?

Either use the latest version, or use the -P option.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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