Re: xfs/lvm problem, disappearing files

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 13:12, Simon Pabst wrote:

> Running xfs_repair again produces the same output again and again, so my
> question is,
> is my filesystem safe or should I backup data and mkfs it again?

Repair will do this if you do not clean out lost+found between runs,
during each run it deletes the directory, making the contents unlinked
inodes again.

> 
> system is redhat 7.1(roswell), kernel is  2.4.9-13SGI_XFS_PR1custom with lvm
> from
> this version (1.01rc4), running on an athlon 900, 512mb
> mount options: /dev/vg02/lvol1  /fs3  xfs
> defaults,noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=4   1 2
> vg02/lvol1 is a 2-disk stripeset using 2 maxtor 80gb ide drives
> /var/log/messages did not show any xfs-related information
> 

Ugh, ancient kernel. 

I am not sure what happened to your filesystem, the repair output
could have been valid the first time, but we do not really know
that - the files in lost+found could be recent or the may be old.
Do they correspond with things from the directory which went
missing?

Nothing else rings a bell here.

Steve


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