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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, xfs@pzystorm.de
Subject: Re: Problem with XFS on USB 2TB HD
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:30:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0E413F.50204@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101219155703.0dba96ff@galadriel.home>

On 12/19/10 8:57 AM, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:04:21 +0100 vous écriviez:
> 
>> ERROR: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log which
>> needs to be replayed.
> 
> Given this message, you'll have to run xfs_repair with the zero log
> option ( -L ). This is dangerous, but it can't get much worse anyway.

I agree with that approach.

> Run xfs_repair -L /device , you should be able to mount your filesystem
> afterwards, however any data under change at the time of failure will
> most probably be lost.

And something seems to have really whacked your filesystem; odds are 
the USB transport was lying to xfs one way or another about completed
writes, and when it went away, things were not consistent on disk
as expected.

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-19 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-18 11:26 Problem with XFS on USB 2TB HD Kevin Richter
2010-12-19  2:04 ` Kevin Richter
2010-12-19  2:37   ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-19 14:57   ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-12-19 17:30     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-12-20  0:10 ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-20  2:56   ` Kevin Richter
2010-12-20  4:51     ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-20  9:55       ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-01-12 23:37         ` Kevin Richter
2011-01-13 13:15           ` Extreme fragmentation when backing up via NFS Phil Karn
2011-01-14  4:51             ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-13 21:52           ` Problem with XFS on USB 2TB HD Geoffrey Wehrman
2010-12-20  8:59 ` Michael Monnerie

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