From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q129HICL041572 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 03:17:18 -0600 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id hc9fSiCEIrgqPte6 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:17:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:17:15 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: xfs_repair takes long time Message-ID: <20120202091715.GC31203@infradead.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Kiran.Chandapu@emc.com Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.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. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs