Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1

[Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>]

Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:59:33AM -0500, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote:
>   
>> I did try the xfs_repair 2.8.4 for a volume running on 2.6.17.4 and it 
>> annihilated the volume.  This volume was not showing signs of crashing.  
>> So... I guess I would certainly not run xfs_repair unless there is good 
>> reason.
>>     
>
> Erm, wha..?  Can you expand on "annihilated" a bit?  (please send
> me the full xfs_repair output if you still have it).
>   

Nathan Scott,

I'm very sorry; I don't have the output anymore.  By annihilated I mean 
that there were several directories trees that /didn't work/.  If you 
tried to cd into the directory or take a directory listing... or used a 
file that you knew was in these certain directories then you'd get pages 
of debug message to the console; and no usable data.  I re-ran 
xfs_repair and retried several times but the condition never seemed to 
improve or get worse for that matter.

I /incorrectly/ figured it was a known issue or I'd have saved the 
output.  Sorry again.

-- 
Jeffrey Hundstad