From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o1CKU2no024066 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:30:03 -0600 Received: from lo.gmane.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id C00A313A48CE for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id OHn6k7JE8ia2xQL0 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng2AV-0008OA-N3 for linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:31:15 +0100 Received: from vm15c-113.broadinstitute.org ([69.173.114.122]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:31:15 +0100 Received: from nico by vm15c-113.broadinstitute.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:31:15 +0100 From: Nicolas Stransky Subject: Re: xfs_repair on a 1.5 TiB image has been hanging for about an hour, now Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:30:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <2d460de71002120607g763afc2bt2167fcfbf4664b56@mail.gmail.com> <4B75738D.80108@sandeen.net> <2d460de71002120845ue5b127ex1033b37ae5ff6ba2@mail.gmail.com> <2d460de71002120902g3bda548t4e202dfe43a0c742@mail.gmail.com> <4B7594D3.6040304@sandeen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: 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 Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com The -P option allowed me to complete xfs_repair successfully, but it also deleted almost everything on the filesystem... A directory that I could mount -o ro,norecovery before, with tens of GB of data in it, is now empty... That is really too bad. Thanks for your help. On 2/12/10 1:16 PM, Nicolas Stransky wrote: > Right :) > I'm using xfsprogs 3.1.0, on Debian Lenny, because 3.1.1 fails to build > for some reason. > I've been trying to repair a 1.4TB filesystem for more than a week, > without success. xfs_repair never completes. I straced the stuck process > today and got: > Process 28510 attached - interrupt to quit > futex(0x429cb58, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL > > I'm running xfs_repair -P -t5 -m500 /dev/sda1 because the machine only > has 2GB of RAM and was swapping like crazy. I'll see how it goes with > the -P option. > > I'm happy to provide xfs_metadump if this still hangs! > > Thanks, > Nico > > On 2/12/10 12:50 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Nicolas Stransky wrote: >>> I'm running into the same problem exactly, except that it's not 10 >>> minutes, but DAYS. >>> >>> What is the version that fixes this? >> >> hard to say without knowing for sure what version you're using, and >> what exactly "this" is that you're seeing :) >> >> Providing an xfs_metadump of the corrupted fs that hangs repair >> is also about the best thing you could do for investigation, >> if you've already determined that the latest release doesn't help. >> >> -Eric >> >>> Thanks >>> >>> On 2/12/10 12:02 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: >>>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 17:45, Richard Hartmann >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I thought about that, but I fear that I will flood my terminal off with crap >>>>> and/or that I somehow impair xfs_repair while doing so. >>>> Running it for ten minutes gives me: >>>> >>>> root@grml ~ # strace -p13629 >>>> Process 13629 attached - interrupt to quit >>>> futex(0xa381b4cc, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL^C >>>> Process 13629 detached >>>> root@grml ~ # >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xfs mailing list >> xfs@oss.sgi.com >> http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs >> > > -- Nico _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs