From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rupa.com (hosted.rupa.com [207.210.101.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l6JBEbbm009488 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:14:39 -0700 Message-ID: <469F6296.9090902@rupa.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:09:42 -0700 From: Rupa Schomaker MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: XFS repair on / in a hosted environment References: <469E690B.5070600@rupa.com> <20070719023419.GC12413810@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070719023419.GC12413810@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: David Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 7/18/2007 7:34 PM, David Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:24:59PM -0700, Rupa Schomaker wrote: >> I have a virtual server hosted in a XEN environment. Kernel is >> 2.6.16.13-XenU and I can't change it. :( Host provider is not responsive >> to getting us a newer kernel. >> >> Anyway, during my nightly rsync backup, I started seeing the following: > ..... > > what does /proc/mounts tell you (rather than /etc/mtab)? > > If /proc/mounts says ro, then try upgrading your xfsprogs package. > and then retrying the repair.... /proc/mounts shows ro. What version is new enough? I'm running debian sarge, so have: # xfs_repair -V xfs_repair version 2.9.0 ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/ only shows a xfs_progs up to 2.8.21-1. > Cheers, > > Dave. Thanks, -Rupa