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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Nicolas STRANSKY <Nico@stransky.cx>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Filesystem corrupted: "Sorry,	could not find valid secondary superblock"
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:38:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B63010D.1080608@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hjus58$6oi$1@ger.gmane.org>

Nicolas STRANSKY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Debian Lenny with xfsprogs 2.9.8-1lenny1 and a kernel
> 2.6.26-2-amd64. Recently I had some disk failures on a 1.5TB RAID 5
> array, which is now running in a degraded mode but the xfs filesystem on
> this array is inconsistent. I can mount it with -o ro,norecovery and
> read some files, but I can't read most of them.
> Using xfs_repair, I tried to repair the filesystem. It went for 12
> hours, displaying these messages:
> "found candidate secondary superblock...
> unable to verify superblock, continuing..."
> and finally:
> "Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock
> Exiting now."
> 
> Is there anything else I could do to repair the filesystem? Upgrade to a
> newer version of xfsprogs? Is it possible that there is no valid
> secondary superblock on the whole disk or are they just not found?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help,
> NS.

xfs_repair needs to be smarter about this; I at least wish it'd say
-why- the candidate was not valid.

Can you include the whole repair output?  Then maybe we can direct
you to some xfs_db jujitsu to examine the fs.

Trying newer xfsprogs would not be a -bad- idea...

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-29 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-29 14:42 Filesystem corrupted: "Sorry, could not find valid secondary superblock" Nicolas STRANSKY
2010-01-29 15:38 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-01-29 16:06   ` Nicolas Stransky
2010-01-29 17:12     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-01-29 17:41       ` Nicolas Stransky
2010-01-29 18:16         ` Eric Sandeen
2010-01-29 19:58           ` Nicolas Stransky
2010-02-01 17:29           ` Nicolas Stransky

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