From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EC57F51 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:42:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316FA304053 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [63.231.237.45]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id HdK8FcUWaGQHlS4T for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <520D2117.5030400@sandeen.net> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:42:31 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Failure growing xfs with linux 3.10.5 References: <52073905.8010608@allmail.net> <5207D9C4.7020102@sandeen.net> <52090C6C.6060604@allmail.net> <20130813000453.GQ12779@dastard> <520A5132.6090608@allmail.net> <20130814062041.GB12779@dastard> <520BAE48.1020605@allmail.net> <520D0D5D.4000309@sandeen.net> <520D162B.5060901@allmail.net> <520D1A82.1000709@sandeen.net> <520D1F8A.3060707@allmail.net> In-Reply-To: <520D1F8A.3060707@allmail.net> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Michael Maier Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 8/15/13 1:35 PM, Michael Maier wrote: >> but a check prior wouldn't have helped you, because repair didn't detect >> > the problem that growfs choked on. > The old xfs_repair! Your patched one would have detected the problem if > I got it right. > > But globally speaking: you're right - it's impossible to get 100% > security. But couldn't xfs_repair -n find other problems which therefore > could be repaired before growing the FS? yep, sure. extN keeps track of the last fsck instance, and sometimes enforces it prior to resize. XFS doesn't do that, but it's probably not bad practice. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs