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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kiran.Chandapu@emc.com
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_repair takes long time
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:17:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202091715.GC31203@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D6BB8A3C30275C45A0A5CA53D5CC37F80242C12A02@MX03A.corp.emc.com>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:19:01AM -0500, Kiran.Chandapu@emc.com wrote:
> So I have realized that the file system might have corrupted and started running xfs_repair but it takes such a long time, not sure it is because of the amount of data we have on the volume around 12TB.
> First time it took 3 days, incomplete and unfortunately the session got terminated. Now again I have to run the repair.
> 
> Could anyone please let me know, is there any way I can speed up the process or any rough idea who much time the file system repair going to take.

Grab the latests version from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git, and run it in
verbose mode (xfs_repair -v).

I suspect you actually have a a volume that doesn't resemble a
filesystem anymore and it's looking for a superblock but can't find it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-02  8:19 xfs_repair takes long time Kiran.Chandapu
2012-02-02  9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-02-02  9:29   ` Kiran.Chandapu
2012-02-02 10:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-02 10:58       ` Kiran.Chandapu

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