xfs_metadump

[Eric Sandeen]

On 6/12/15 7:49 AM, Johannes Weydt wrote:
> Hello SGI,
> 
>  
> 
> We experienced a I/O error on one of our XFS filesystems, xfs_repair –n advised to
> 
> “Please capture the filesystem metadata with xfs_metadump and
> 
> report it to xfs at oss.sgi.com <mailto:xfs at oss.sgi.com>.”
> before it ended with a Segmentation fault.
> 
> The metadata is almost 3GB big, how do you recommend to transfer the file?

did you try to compress it?

> Do you have an open FTP for us?

> Also attached are some console outputs of first investigation attempts.
> 
> Log of xfs_repair –n (1^st run)

What version?  Have you tried the latest version?

oh:

> xfsprogs is installed in version:
> 
> root at daw1:/localtmp # rpm -qa |grep xfsprogs
> 
> xfsprogs-3.1.1-10.el6.x86_64

> 
> Can you advise something?

If this is a RHEL6 box, have you contacted Red Hat support?

-Eric