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From: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
To: "Jonathan C. Detert" <Jonathan.Detert@msoe.edu>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: mount prob: "log inconsistent or not a log"
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:45:33 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <476A017D.2020106@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071220050445.GA3212@msoe.edu>

Jonathan C. Detert wrote:
> 
>> If there's corruption that was not between the tail to the head,
>> then it could be a goer I guess but one would wonder about corruption
> 
> what do you mean by 'goer' - hardware failure?
>

I was just thinking that if there was corruption just confined to the
log but not in the interval between the tail and head then
I can't see why theoretically the log can't be replayed.
The replay of the log is done from the tail to the head - the
other log data is mostly irrelevant in this case AFAICT
(I think the failure came with code which is trying to deal
  with the case with a new filesystem where part of the log
  is not written to yet so has zero cycle#s - but here we have
  wrapped 598 times or whatever it was).

--Tim

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-20  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20  0:01 mount prob: "log inconsistent or not a log" Jonathan.Detert
2007-12-20  0:53 ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-12-20  1:16   ` Jonathan C. Detert
2007-12-20  4:44     ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-12-20  5:04       ` Jonathan C. Detert
2007-12-20  5:45         ` Timothy Shimmin [this message]
2007-12-20 19:54         ` Jonathan C. Detert
2007-12-20  1:18   ` Jonathan C. Detert
2007-12-20  1:54     ` David Chinner
2007-12-20  2:44       ` Jonathan C. Detert
2007-12-20 17:55         ` Jonathan C. Detert
2007-12-21  0:47           ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-12-21  1:55             ` Jonathan C. Detert
2007-12-21  6:40               ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-12-21 23:19                 ` Jonathan C. Detert

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