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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@mygrande.net>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Corrupted files
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:06:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140909220645.GH20518@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540F1B01.3020700@mygrande.net>

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:21:37AM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 	I have an issue with my primary RAID array.  I have 13T of data on
> the array, and I suffered a major array failure.  I was able to
> rebuild the array, but some data was lost.  Of course I have
> backups, so after running xfs_repair, I ran an rsync job to recover
> the lost data.  Most of it was recovered, but there are several
> files that cannot be read, deleted, or overwritten.  I have tried
> running xfs_repair several times, but any attempt to access these
> files continuously reports "cannot stat XXXXXXXX: Structure needs
> cleaning".  I don't need to try to recover the data directly, as it
> does reside on the backup, but I need to clear the file structure so
> I can write the files back to the filesystem.  How do I proceed?

Fristly, more infomration is required, namely versions and actual
error messages:

http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_What_information_should_I_include_when_reporting_a_problem.3F

dmesg, in particular, should tell use what the corruption being
encountered is when stat fails.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-09 15:21 Corrupted files Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-09 15:50 ` Sean Caron
2014-09-09 16:03   ` Sean Caron
2014-09-09 22:24     ` Eric Sandeen
2014-09-09 22:57       ` Sean Caron
2014-09-10  1:00         ` Roger Willcocks
2014-09-10  1:23           ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-10  5:09         ` Eric Sandeen
2014-09-10  0:48       ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-10  1:10         ` Roger Willcocks
2014-09-10  1:31           ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-10 14:24             ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-09-10 14:49               ` Sean Caron
2014-09-09 16:08 ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-09-09 22:06 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-09-10  1:12   ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-10  1:25     ` Sean Caron
2014-09-10  1:43       ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-10 14:31         ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-09-10 14:52           ` Grozdan
2014-09-10 15:12             ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-09-10 15:32               ` Grozdan
2014-09-10 14:54           ` Sean Caron
2014-09-10 23:18           ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-11 13:24           ` Greg Freemyer
2014-09-12  7:06             ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-09-10  1:53     ` Dave Chinner
2014-09-10  3:10       ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-10  3:33         ` Dave Chinner
2014-09-10  4:14           ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-10  4:22             ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-10 14:34               ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-09-10  4:51           ` Leslie Rhorer
2014-09-10  5:23             ` Dave Chinner
2014-09-11  5:47               ` Leslie Rhorer

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