From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: "Niccolò Belli" <darkbasic@linuxsystems.it>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: How to recover data from an xfs partition
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 12:46:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB68AF6.1090303@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB66430.9040202@linuxsystems.it>
On 5/18/12 10:01 AM, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Il 18/05/2012 16:31, Ben Myers ha scritto:
>> I recommend you give it a shot with the latest xfsprogs. However, it may be
>> that your filesystem has been corrupted beyond repair.
>
> I succeeded recovering something with xfsprogs 3.1.8, but no more than 1GB of data (~5%).
>
> Fortunately I managed to save some precious config files, considering I had a 6 months old backup the disaster is a bit less catastrophic.
>
> I had a bad time replacing corrupted data from the other ten ext4 virtual machines, but they didn't give me too much troubles compared to xfs. How ironic that the data loss happened during the installation of the backup system...
>
> To be honest I don't know if I will use xfs anymore, unfortunately I need per-directory quota and it is the only viable solution.
You're welcome to follow your heart on choice of filesystem of course, but without knowing what happened to your storage, it's a little bit of a stretch to blame xfs.
Just based on:
> xfs_check: /dev/loop51 is not a valid XFS filesystem (unexpected SB magic number 0xeb639010)
it appears that something scribbled all over your storage (i.e. the file backing it - what was that stored on?) What it was that did the scribbling, and how much it scribbled is unknown, and it may or may not have been more significant than whatever hit your ext4 partitions.
I do not think you encountered an xfs bug; something else severely damaged your block device.
-Eric
> Niccolò
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-12 17:28 How to recover data from an xfs partition Niccolò Belli
2012-05-18 14:31 ` Ben Myers
2012-05-18 15:01 ` Niccolò Belli
2012-05-18 17:46 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-05-18 20:57 ` Niccolò Belli
2012-05-18 22:47 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-05-18 23:36 ` Niccolò Belli
2012-05-21 7:44 ` Michael Monnerie
2012-05-21 8:23 ` Niccolò Belli
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