Re: XFS filesystem corruption

Julien FERRERO
2013-03-07T13:04:37Z

> It may be unrelated to your corruption, problem but I'm curious why you
> are specifying a 32MB log section instead of letting mkfs.xfs make the
> log size decision.

I honestly don' know, the rebuild script was written 8 years ago by an
engineer that since left the company.

Is 32MB a short log space for a 1.5 TB of data ?

>
> I would assume based on your description that this is a mobile storage
> system, often moved from one location to another, probably in a van, and
> this is why the operator simply hits the power switch? Live news crew
> type application or similar?
>

Correct.

Moreover, the common usage is to power off all the equipment (included
ours) from a general power switch.