From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: RAID5 / 6 Growth Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:39:51 +0000 Message-ID: <4B2D6447.1070406@anonymous.org.uk> References: <88.03.04641.B353D2B4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <88.03.04641.B353D2B4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Leslie Rhorer Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 19/12/2009 20:19, Leslie Rhorer wrote: [...] >> The reason why you can't mount even though repair suggests you do >> might be because of a bug in xfsprogs/libs not a complete corruption >> in the filesystem itself. > > It's possible, I guess, but the diagnostics seem pretty coherent. > Running xfs_repair in test mode finds a small but reasonable number of > issues. Please excuse me if this is a stupid question, but is it possible any of the apparent issues could be caused by the block device underneath the filesystem having changed size, so the filesystem's in some sense the wrong size now? Cheers, John.