From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about xfs/098
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:06:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160824230620.GE8265@birch.djwong.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57BD507C.6050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 03:45:00PM +0800, Xiao Yang wrote:
> Hi Darrick
>
> When i run xfstests test case xfs/098 on RHEL7.3Alpha with xfsprog-dev(4.5.0),
> I always get following error:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> + repair fs
> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
> Phase 2 - using internal log
> - zero log...
> Log inconsistent (didn't find previous header)
> failed to find log head
> zero_log: cannot find log head/tail (xlog_find_tail=5)
>
> fatal error -- ERROR: The log head and/or tail cannot be discovered. Attempt to mount the
> filesystem to replay the log or use the -L option to destroy the log and
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> When metadata is changed by corrupting the journal, xfs_repair fails
> to repair corrupt xfs filesystem. I'd like to know this is expected
> behavior for xfs_repair? Can we use -L option to repair corrupt xfs
> filesystem successfully.
xfs_repair is not capable of replaying the journal at all. The only
option is to try to mount the fs, and if that fails, xfs_repair -L
will zero the log and check the filesystem.
So yes, that is the expected behavior.
--D
>
> Please advise. Thanks very much.
>
> Regards,
> Xiao Yang
>
>
>
>
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