XFS File system in trouble

[Eric Sandeen]

> On Jul 20, 2015, at 2:41 AM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer at mygrande.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/19/2015 6:27 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 08:02:50PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>>> 
>>>    I found the problem with md5sum (and probably nfs, as well).  One
>>> of the memory modules in the server was bad.  The problem with XFS
>>> persists.  Every time tar tried to create the directory:
>> 
>> Now you need to run xfs_repair.
> 
>    I do that every time the array implodes.  It makes no difference.

Have you done it since you fixed the bad memory problem?

>  It never mentions cleaning the structure tar says needs cleaning,

What does it mention?  AFAICT you haven't yet provided output from repair...

> and the next time I run tar on that file, the filesystem craters.

Brian's suggestion of isolating with metadump is a good one, too.

Eric

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