Weird message from xfs_repair
Ben Myers
bpm at sgi.com
Wed May 1 14:43:20 CDT 2013
Hi Emmanuel,
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 08:06:33PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> I've just had to resort to the latest devel version of xfs_repair to
> get back some heavily damaged filesystem (thanks to a failing RAID
> controller), and it ended with the following message:
>
> cache_purge: shake on cache 0x672030 left 1 nodes!?
>
> What's this about? I didn't look at the source, but a new run of
> xfs_repair detected nothing.
xfs_repair/libxfs has caches for xfs_bufs and inodes to speed things up.
cache_purge is trying to flush out all entries from one of those caches. After
the purge one entry was left unexpectedly, maybe because someone leaked a
reference on it or something. The message doesn't indicate an on-disk problem,
it's a problem in xfs_repair.
Regards,
Ben
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