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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: hank peng <pengxihan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: can xfs_repair guarantee a complete clean filesystem?
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:44:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1539C6.90000@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <389deec70912010732o72edd3c4q196088a1c01b801e@mail.gmail.com>

hank peng wrote:
> 2009/12/1 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>:
>> hank peng wrote:
>>
>>> Today, I encountered a problem:
>>> I use "xfs_repair -L “ on a damaged filesystem and a lot of messages
>> why did you use -L, did it fail to mount & replay the log properly?
>>
> umount, mount, umount and then xfs_repair failed, so I have to use -L.

Failed how?  that's a bug.  (or, -L did nothing anyway because the log
wasn't dirty after the clean unmount)

>>> output which include "moving disconnected inodes to lost+found ...".
>>> Then I can remount the filesystem successfully and decided to remove
>>> those files in lost+found directory, but it printed the following
>>> message:
>>> root@1234dahua:/mnt/Pool_md1/ss1/lost+found# rm -rf *
>>> rm: cannot stat '710': Structure needs cleaning
>>> rm: cannot stat '728': Structure needs cleaning
>>> rm: cannot stat '729': Structure needs cleaning
>>> rm: cannot stat '730': Structure needs cleaning
>>> rm: cannot stat '731': Structure needs cleaning
>>> rm: cannot stat '732': Structure needs cleaning
>>> rm: cannot stat '733': Structure needs cleaning
>>> rm: cannot stat '734': Structure needs cleaning
>>> rm: cannot stat '735': Structure needs cleaning
>> Look at dmesg to see what's gone wrong....
>>
> 
>>> Other directories and files seems normal to access, is it not allowed
>>> to delete files in lost+found directory after repair, then what should
>>> I do?
>> This is indicative of a bug or IO error that caused xfs to shut down.
>>
>> You haven't mentioned which kernel version, architecture, or
>> version of xfsprogs you're using yet ... that may offer some clues.
>>
> 
>> I'm guessing an older kernel and userspace on arm? :)
>>
> kernel version is 2.6.23, xfsprogs is 2.9.7, CPU is MPC8548, powerpc arch.
> I am at home now, Maybe I can provide some detailed information tomorrow.

If there's any possibility to test newer kernel & userspace, that'd 
be great.  Many bugs have been fixed since those versions.

-Eric

>> -Eric
>>
> 
> 
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-01  2:05 can xfs_repair guarantee a complete clean filesystem? hank peng
2009-12-01  3:54 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-12-01  4:37   ` hank peng
2009-12-01  5:58     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-12-01  6:34       ` hank peng
2009-12-01 14:43         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-12-01 15:32           ` hank peng
2009-12-01 15:44             ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-12-02  0:46               ` hank peng
2009-12-02  1:08                 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-12-02  1:36                   ` hank peng
2009-12-02  2:39                   ` hank peng
2009-12-02  3:52                     ` Eric Sandeen

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