Attempt to Access Beyond End of Device

[Federico Sevilla III <jijo@fs3.ph>]

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Hi,

We've set up Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch" on an IBM x3400 machine with
two 73.4GB SAS hard drives in hardware RAID 1 with a battery-backed
cache. We are using the stock Debian 2.6.18-4-686 kernel.

The filesystems were created using the following optimization:

        -l size=32768b,version=2 -n 64k

The filesystems are mounted using the following optimization:

        logbufs=8,logbsize=256k

Today, we were unable to mount the "large" (not really at < 70GB) /var
(/dev/sda8), getting the following error:

        Attempt to access beyond end of device
        sda: rw=0, want=143139140, limit=143134720
        I/O error in filesystem ("sda8") meta-data dev sda8 block
        0x75cd27f
        ("xf:read_buf") errors buf count 512
        XFS: size check 2 failed
        Mount: /dev/sda8: can't read superblock

An attempted repair also fails:

        # xfs_repair /dev/sda8
        Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
        Attempt to access beyond end of device
        Sda: rw=0, want=143139140, limit=143134720
        Xfs_repair: read failed.      Input/output error

The partition table looks okay:

        #Partition table of /dev/sda
        /dev/sda1 : start=          63,size        9637, Id=83, bootable
        /dev/sda2 : start=       96390,size   143042760, Id=5
        /dev/sda3 : start=           0,size           0, Id=0
        /dev/sda4 : start=           0,size           0, Id=0   
        /dev/sda5 : start=       96453,size     3903732, Id=82
        /dev/sda6 : start=     4000248,size     7807527, Id=83
        /dev/sda7 : start=    11807838,size     7807527, Id=83
        /dev/sda8 : start=    19615428,size   123523722, Id=83

The machine doesn't have valuable data, yet, so a simple reinstall
should help get it back up. However I'm more concerned about what could
cause this. It's the first time for me to use a version 2 log, 64k
directories (?) and 256k in-memory log buffers. Are any of these to
blame?

We're also looking for generic filesystem tweaks for a PostgreSQL +
Apache server, which this will be (with more load direct to PostgreSQL
than to/through Apache). Are the above choices for mkfs.xfs and mount
well-made?

Please advise.

Thank you very much.

-- 
Federico Sevilla III
F S 3 Consulting Inc.
http://www.fs3.ph

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