Re: XFS: failed to read RT inodes

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Per Lundberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After a hard drive failure (and no backup...) I am trying with all my
> strength do recover the file systems... With no real success. I have
> dumped over the two file systems in question to another, healthy disk
> drive. After dumping back the data to a third hard disk, one of the
> file system can be successfully mounted but with a huge number of
> files in the lost+found directory (after recovery using xfs_repair).
> Strange since the dump indicated only 11 bad sectors on that file
> system.
> 
> However, the big (55 gig) file system cannot even be mounted and this
> is troublesome since it contains the most valuable data. This is what
> I get after doing xfs_repair on the volume:
> 
> Jan 10 10:30:59 amos kernel: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes,
> realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
> Jan 10 10:30:59 amos kernel: SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
> Jan 10 10:31:00 amos kernel: XFS mounting filesystem sda10
> Jan 10 10:31:00 amos kernel: XFS: failed to read RT inodes

maybe try xfs_db on the device; "sb 0" and "p" commands to see what the
rt inodes are.

-Eric