new fs, xfs_admin new label, metadata corruption detected

[Dave Chinner]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 05:21:51PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:39:21PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >> OK I can consistently reproduce this on the CLI. I end up with totally different
> >>
> >> # lvcreate -L 40g VG -n testxfs
> >>   Logical volume "testxfs" created.
> > ....
> > [grow]
> > ....
> >> # xfs_repair -n /dev/VG/testxfs
> >> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
> >> Phase 2 - using internal log
> >>         - zero log...
> >>         - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps...
> >> Metadata corruption detected at xfs_agf block 0x8c00008/0x1000
> >> fllast 1014 in agf 7 too large (max = 1014)
> >> Metadata corruption detected at xfs_agf block 0x6400008/0x1000
> >> fllast 1014 in agf 5 too large (max = 1014)
> >> Metadata corruption detected at xfs_agf block 0x5000008/0x1000
> >> fllast 1014 in agf 4 too large (max = 1014)
> >> Metadata corruption detected at xfs_agf block 0x7800008/0x1000
> >> fllast 1014 in agf 6 too large (max = 1014)
> >>         - found root inode chunk
> >
> > That's caused by commit 96f859d ("libxfs: pack the agfl header
> > structure so XFS_AGFL_SIZE is correct") and growfs setting the
> > last free list entry to something that a userspace without the
> > commit  9fccb9f ("libxfs: pack the agfl header structure so
> > XFS_AGFL_SIZE is correct") fails to validate correctly.
> >
> > i.e. update userspace to 4.5.0, and the repair noise will go away.
> 
> Yep. The problem is not reproducible with xfsprogs 4.5.0.

Thanks for confirming that, Chris.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com