From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n7S4GiCH129930 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:16:55 -0500 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1B6DB1571D9C for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 0mUOcTx3uJSi2zfA for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A975A35.3060809@sandeen.net> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:16:53 -0700 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xfs data loss References: In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: "Passerone, Daniele" Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" Passerone, Daniele wrote: > Dear xfs developers > > We have a SUN X4500 with 48 500 GB drives, that we configured under SUSE SLES 10. > > Among others, we have 3 RAID5 xfs filesystems, /dev/md4 with 20 units (9.27 TB) > /dev/md5 with 20 units (9.27 TB) and /dev/md6 with 5 units (1.95 TB) > > These units are not backed up. > > Due to a power shock, suddenly and without log messages about one half (5 TB) of the user > directories on /dev/md4 have disappeared. I presume you mean after a reboot? > Upon reboot, /dev/md6 showed only 3 units, and after a xfs_repair it was again ok. > /dev/md4 mounted immediately, but always with one half of the directories. Were the lost directories recently created? I've never heard of untouched, existing directories disappearing after a power loss... > WHat can I do? Any help would be appreciated, I would really be happy to recover those files... > :) Not much to go on here I'm afraid. SLES10 is an old kernel, but it's supported by SuSE at least. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs