Re: Should xfs_repair take this long?

[Thomas Walker <walker@stsci.edu>]

    I checked the status of the LVM before starting xfs_repair.  I can't 
promise it's all in order, but at least the various pvdisplay, 
vgdisplay, lvdisplay, etc all came back normal.  So... I'll just wait a 
few days and hope that xfs_repair comes back with something eventually.

    thanks for at least taking an interest, too bad that there's nothing 
we can really do about it.

    Thomas Walker

Emmanuel Florac wrote:

>Le Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:08:00 -0400
>Thomas Walker <walker@stsci.edu> écrivait:
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>>    So if I see I/O activity and cpu activity, which I do, should I 
>>assume that eventually the repair should return? 
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>The repair _MAY_ return, unfortunately...
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>> We are thinking of 
>>interrupting it and trying to add more memory and restarting it.
>>Maybe we should just let it go. 
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>Yes, let it go now...
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>>If you think it might finish some
>>time, even if it's going to be another day or two, then I'm willing
>>to be patient. I'm just worried it might be going around in circles.
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>It should finish if you're testing the right device, and the LV is
>properly assembled. If it reach the end of the device and find nothing,
>you should restart LVM first to check that your PV/VG/LV are correctly
>set up, and retry.
>If it doesn't work after that, backup will be your last friend.
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