Re: Question: How can I recover this partition? (unable to find logical $hugenum len 4096)

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

On 8/29/13 3:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
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> On Aug 29, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:44:54PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
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>>> Certainly, if known for sure it won't be more than 30 seconds?
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>>   Mmm... it'll depend on the setting of the commit period, which up
>> until a couple of weeks ago was always 30s, but someone posted a patch
>> to give it a config knob…
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> "Proceeding will roll back the file system to a previous state, and
> may cause the loss of successfully written data since the last commit
> period (30 seconds by default). Proceed? (Y/N)"

Is it just loss of data, or might this also result in a filesystem with inconsistent metadata, which then requires a fsck?

Above sounds like it's "just" reverting to a previous (consistent) state.  Is that correct?

-Eric

p.s. fwiw when the xfs_repair zero-log option "-L" is used, we say:

"ALERT: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log which is being\n"
"destroyed because the -L option was used.\n"));