catch22: xfs_repair fails, tells me to mount, which fails

[martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>]

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Hi,

this morning I woke up to a system without /home, the reason being:

  piper:~# mount /dev/mapper/vg0-home                                       [308]
  mount: Unknown error 990
  piper:~# dmesg | tail -20                                              [32,309]
  Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: dm-0 (logdev: internal)
  Filesystem "dm-0": xfs_inode_recover: Bad inode magic number, dino ptr = 0xffff810028a6bd00, dino bp = 0xffff81002851d140, ino = 33629
  Filesystem "dm-0": XFS internal error xlog_recover_do_inode_trans(1) at line 2352 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c.  Caller 0xffffffff88307729

  Call Trace: <ffffffff8830753c>{:xfs:xlog_recover_commit_trans+4198}
        <ffffffff80231360>{submit_bio+184} <ffffffff88307729>{:xfs:xlog_recover_process_data+466}
        <ffffffff883081c6>{:xfs:xlog_do_recovery_pass+585} <ffffffff883096f4>{:xfs:xlog_recover+243}
        <ffffffff88305b2f>{:xfs:xfs_log_mount+1310} <ffffffff8830b671>{:xfs:xfs_mountfs+2116}
        <ffffffff880a0076>{:libata:ata_exec_command+0} <ffffffff8020bcdc>{_atomic_dec_and_lock+57}
        <ffffffff883119ac>{:xfs:xfs_mount+1900} <ffffffff88320bb0>{:xfs:xfs_fs_fill_super+126}
        <ffffffff802bc01d>{get_filesystem+18} <ffffffff802b530c>{sget+850}
        <ffffffff802b4c65>{set_bdev_super+0} <ffffffff802b4c74>{test_bdev_super+0}
        <ffffffff802b5dec>{bd_claim+24} <ffffffff802b5996>{get_sb_bdev+239}
        <ffffffff88320b32>{:xfs:xfs_fs_fill_super+0} <ffffffff802b5605>{do_kern_mount+157}
        <ffffffff802bd86e>{do_mount+1676} <ffffffff8022b2c2>{mntput_no_expire+25}
        <ffffffff802075bb>{find_get_page+33} <ffffffff80212173>{filemap_nopage+387}
        <ffffffff8020878d>{__handle_mm_fault+1276} <ffffffff8020a699>{do_page_fault+1151}
        <ffffffff80249b1f>{sys_mount+138} <ffffffff80259b0e>{system_call+126}
  XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 990
  XFS: log mount failed

When I try to run xfs_repair, I get:

  piper:~# xfs_repair /dev/mapper/vg0-home                                  [310]
  Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
  Phase 2 - using internal log
          - zero log...
  ERROR: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log which needs to
  be replayed.  Mount the filesystem to replay the log, and unmount it before
  re-running xfs_repair.  If you are unable to mount the filesystem, then use
  the -L option to destroy the log and attempt a repair.
  Note that destroying the log may cause corruption -- please attempt a mount
  of the filesystem before doing this.

I have already tried the xfs_db method of the "dir2" faq entry,
trying to delete that offending inode, but setting core.mode = 0 for
that inode did not do anything.

I do not have enough space around to xfsdump those 250Gb, nor would
I know how, given that I cannot mount the filesystem and xfsdump
works on mounted filesystems only.

I've had really bad experiences with XFS lately [0], but I am not
giving up just yet. This time around, I guess I can wait a bit and
try to get things fixed.

0. http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2006.08.09-through-with-xfs

Would you have any idea what I should do?

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