Weird message from xfs_repair

[Emmanuel Florac]

Le Wed, 01 May 2013 15:58:09 -0500 vous écriviez:

> Several of those internal cache housekeeping messages can be
> alarming.  Indeed anything out of the ordinary during repair
> is alarming to most users.  ;)
> 

Well I've had xfs_repair happily wiping several terabytes of data in
the past, so I'm easily concerned :) But I supposed this is mostly
related to the fact I was running a pre-release.


> Emmanuael - if another xfs_repair pops out the same error,
> then capturing a metadump of the fs would probably let someone
> look into it.  Someone who has time, that is.  ;)

In that case the filesystem was in extremely poor shape with lots of
errors I've never seen before, and a lot of users waiting for it to
come back online. Fortunately recent xfs_repair seem to be reliable
enough.

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