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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Dragon <Sunghost@gmx.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS Repair hangs at inode repair in phase3
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:15:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A98805.1080106@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-74fd845e-7f9d-4482-a8dd-4dd93421a033-1403614903299@3capp-gmx-bs44>

On 6/24/14, 8:01 AM, Dragon wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> i have a fresh install Debian Wheezy with software raid as md2 for my
> files. MD2 is nealry full of 8TB and i wanted to migrate the data to
> a newier system. While copy files i got an message that i have to run
> xfs_repair. I first run xfs_check but it eats up all my 11GB memory
> and the system stalls.

Yep, xfs_check doesn't scale and is on the way to deprecation.

> Then i run xfs_repair -n /dev/md2 but it hangs
> each time add: problem with directory contens in inode 2147997719 -
> would have cleared inode 2147997719. If i break this and restart, it
> hangs at the same position. System seems to do nothing over hours.

You might try the -P option to repair.

-P Disable prefetching of inode and directory blocks. Use this option if you find xfs_repair gets stuck and stops proceeding.

If that works, it likely indicates a bug, but it might get you going.

>  
> Some Infos:
> xfsprogs in Version 3.1.7+b1

And that's a 3-year old xfsprogs, so an upgrade might help, too.

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-24 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-24 13:01 XFS Repair hangs at inode repair in phase3 Dragon
2014-06-24 14:15 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-24 14:24 Dragon
2014-06-24 15:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-06-24 15:43 Dragon
2014-06-24 18:54 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-06-24 19:07 Dragon
2014-06-24 20:02 Dragon
2014-06-24 21:29 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-06-24 22:15 Dragon
2014-06-24 23:08 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-06-24 23:41 Dragon
2014-06-26 19:17 Dragon
2014-06-26 23:32 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-06-27  0:02 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-27  7:42 Dragon

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