Re: Problems with xfs_repair

[Michael Wahlbrink <x_miw@propack-data.com>]

Stephen Lord wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 04:36, Michael Wahlbrink wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>After some trouble with the writecache of the IDE HDDs, I booted my 
>>'repairsystem' and tried the usual xfs_repair (-L) commands out of the 
>>bash-history, but this time they fail.
>>
[....]
>>
>>Any chance left to get my system / data back or have I to do the mkfs 
>>again? ;-/
>>
>>regards
>>micha
> 
> 
> How recent is your xfs repair, some changes went in last week in
> this area. Log recovery on linux was reworked to reduce the need
> for large buffers (which is a kernel issue), but repair uses the
> same code. Up until last week there were some bugs in there which
> meant some log problems could not be handled.
It's the xfs_repair released with xfs 1.1 .....
I checked out today the cvs tree and check the new one ;-)

> 
> I realize that getting a new repair into your system might be
> a problem. Something like the linuxcare bootable toolbox
> might be useful in this sort of scenario, I think it has
> networking support.
Thats no problem, I've my old SCSI disk as a bootable repair system wich 
I used often before (as my write cache was not disabled) so I will 
simply compile the new xfsprogs on this rescue HDD ;-)


regards
micha