Re: Broken XFS partition

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:36:25PM +0200, Sylwester Gruszka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with XFS partition, it has broken down suddenly. I was doing 
> no special things, just browsing www and suddenly my PC has restarted, after 
> that I could not boot by PLD Th linux, after few usual kernel messages I get 
> some matrix of numbers and it stops.
> 
> I realised that it is broken partition after I tried to repair system, I just 
> could not mount this partition (using sysrescuecd), 'mount' gave me lots of 
> weird numbers instead of mounting partition. It only do that way at first try, 
> the second try always freezes mount program and nothing is happening.
> 
> Here are some screenshots (mount using SystemRescueCd-1.1.0 so the kernel is 
> propably 2.6.25.16):
> http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01043ko6.jpg
> http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01044yj4.jpg
> http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01045sr3.jpg
> http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01047js4.jpg

This indicates a corrupted log record is being incorrectly parsed.
Please try adding the patch I posted yesterrday that fixed a
fs-fuzzer triggered occurrence of the same oops....

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-09/msg00296.html

This patch will prevent the oops, but you'll still need to manually
repair the damage to the FS.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com