public inbox for linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Eli Morris <ermorris@ucsc.edu>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: filesystem shrinks after using xfs_repair
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:09:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4B5696.8060302@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F2D7937E-43FC-47F4-B041-B9C5C2CBCCD4@ucsc.edu>

Eli Morris wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've got this problem where if I run xfs_repair, my filesystem
> shrinks by 11 TB, from a volume size of 62 TB to 51 TB. I can grow
> the filesystem again with xfs_growfs, but then rerunning xfs_repair
> shrinks it back down again. The first time this happened was a few
> days ago and running xfs_repair took about 7 TB of data with it. That
> is, out of the 11 TB of disk space that vanished, 7 TB had data on
> it, and 4 TB was empty space. XFS is running on top of an LVM volume.
> It's on an Intel/Linux system running Centos 5 (2.6.18-128.1.14.el5).

Running 2.6.18-138.el5 and beyond will have a much more uptodate xfs,
just FWIW.

-Eric

> Does anyone have an idea on what would cause such a thing and what I
> might try to keep it from continuing to happen. I could just never
> run xfs_repair again, but that doesn't seem like a good thing to
> count on. Major bonus points if anyone has any ideas on how to get my
> 7 TB of data back also. It must be there somewhere and it would be
> very bad to lose.
> 
> thanks for any help and ideas. I'm just stumped right now.
> 
> Eli _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list 
> xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
> 

_______________________________________________
xfs mailing list
xfs@oss.sgi.com
http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-24 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09 23:07 filesystem shrinks after using xfs_repair Eli Morris
2010-07-10  8:16 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-24 21:09 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-11  6:32 Eli Morris
2010-07-11 10:56 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-11 16:29 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-12  1:10 Eli Morris
2010-07-12  2:24 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-12 11:47 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-23  8:30   ` Eli Morris
2010-07-23 10:23     ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-23 16:36       ` Eli Morris
2010-07-24  0:54     ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-24  1:08       ` Eli Morris
2010-07-24  2:39         ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-26  3:20           ` Eli Morris
2010-07-26  3:45             ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-26  4:04               ` Eli Morris
2010-07-26  5:57                 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-26  6:06                 ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-26  6:46                   ` Eli Morris
2010-07-26  8:40                     ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-26  9:49                     ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-26 17:22                       ` Eli Morris
2010-07-26 18:33                         ` Stuart Rowan
2010-07-26 21:06                         ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-27  5:02                           ` Eli Morris
2010-07-27  6:48                             ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-27  8:21                             ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-26 10:20                     ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-28  5:12                       ` Eli Morris
2010-07-29 19:22                         ` Eli Morris
2010-07-29 22:09                           ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-29 22:48                             ` Eli Morris
2010-07-29 23:01                           ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-29 23:15                             ` Eli Morris
2010-07-30  0:39                               ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-30  1:49                                 ` Eli Morris
2010-07-30  7:15                               ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-30  7:57                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 10:23                                   ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-30 10:29                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 12:40                                       ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-30 13:17                                       ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-12  6:39 Eli Morris

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4C4B5696.8060302@sandeen.net \
    --to=sandeen@sandeen.net \
    --cc=ermorris@ucsc.edu \
    --cc=xfs@oss.sgi.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox