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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: file corruption issue
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 10:33:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120524153339.GC3963@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56000.110.174.53.110.1337135447.squirrel@boosthardware.com>

Hey Patrick,

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:30:47AM +0200, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 5:13 pm, Ben Myers wrote:
> > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:58:42AM +0200, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> >> Unfortunately I cannot unmount the partition/s to run xfs_metadump because
> >> they are in use.
> >>
> >> I have found some files that were truncated on a recent crash. Is there
> >> any tool I can run on those files to get info that might be useful?
> >
> > Hrm.. xfs_bmap output could be helpful so we can see the block map.  Do you
> > know how big they are supposed to be?  How much was truncated?
> >
> 
> The files that we have as examples were originally 28bytes but are now 0byte.
> 
> Running xfs_bmap on the 0 byte file returns "no extent".
> 
> ex.
> 
> These files are located next to each other in the same folder.
> 
> - 28 byte file: EXT: FILE-OFFSET      BLOCK-RANGE              AG AG-OFFSET
> TOTAL 0: [0..7]:          28230136440..28230136447 13 (312849120..312849127)
> 8
> 
> - 0 byte file: no extents

So how old are the files that get truncated?  Were they created very recently?

> - A few more details that may be relevant.
> 
> 1: We are running openvz and LVM on these machines. Are there any known
> issue/s with file corruption after a hard reset with openvz/LVM running?

I don't know about openvz/LVM...
 
> 2: We have observed that while there is no obvious pattern in the data
> corruption is does happen in chunks. It appears to be random chunks of files
> that are corrupted after a crash->reset sequence.

...and the data corruption happened in files that are read only?  Again.. when
were they created?

Thanks,
Ben

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-24 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-11  1:27 file corruption issue Patrick Shirkey
2012-05-11 16:50 ` Ben Myers
2012-05-14  1:45   ` Patrick Shirkey
2012-05-14 14:29     ` Ben Myers
2012-05-15  0:58       ` Patrick Shirkey
2012-05-15 15:13         ` Ben Myers
2012-05-16  2:30           ` Patrick Shirkey
2012-05-24 15:33             ` Ben Myers [this message]
2012-05-24 21:46               ` Patrick Shirkey
     [not found]         ` <20120601203451.32ae2ed5@asix.localdomain>
2012-06-01 12:38           ` Igor M Podlesny

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