xfs_repair segfault

[Viet Nguyen]

Luckily the files that I want to recover have metadata in them that will
help me rebuild their names. So I'm okay with blowing away the directory
inodes. I guess I wish there was a flag that I can pass to say that
xfs_repair can junk those for me instead of having to do it manually each
time.


So, the compressed metadump file is 2.4G. Any suggestions on where I should
put it, and who I send it to?

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 01:09:09PM -0700, Viet Nguyen wrote:
> > Thanks. That seemed to fix that bug.
> >
> > Now I'm getting a lot of this:
> > xfs_da_do_buf(2): XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR
>
> Right, that's blocks that are being detected as corrupt when they
> are read. You can ignore that for now.
>
> > fatal error -- can't read block 8388608 for directory inode 8628218
>
> That's a corrupted block list of some kind - it should junk the
> inode.
>
> > Then xfs_repair exits.
>
> I'm not sure why that happens. Is it exiting cleanly or crashing?
> Can you take a metadump of the filesystem and provide it for someone
> to debug the problems it causes repair?
>
> > What I've been doing is what I saw in the FAQ where I would use xfs_db
> and
> > write core.mode 0 for these inodes. But there are just so many of them.
> And
> > is that even the right thing to do?
>
> That marks the inode as "free" which effectively junks it and then
> xfs_repair will free all it's extents next time it is run. Basically
> you are removing the files from the filesystem and making them
> unrecoverable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david at fromorbit.com
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