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From: Manuel Reimer <Manuel.Spam@nurfuerspam.de>
To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: System partially unusable after power loss...
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:30:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i7b8ao$erp$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C928424.1020409@sandeen.net>

Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> and two files with ELF header, which may be (a part of) library files, I
>> don't know, as the name wasn't restored.
>
> Having the xfs_repair output would be helpful.

I didn't save this...

> Was there a system software update just prior to the power loss?

The affected files have been updated some days/weeks before.

> Did your storage support IO barriers (i.e. was it lvm or md)?

No lvm, no md. A simple IDE drive.

> Buffered data is always lost on a power loss, but I'm not sure
> why you should see problems with system files unless they had
> just been written out (and not synced).

I fixed this system. The reason was this silly "kbuildsycoca" or better 
a config file, accessible by the user, using this PC. Seems like this 
"non system file" got corrupted in some way. A run of "kbuildsycoca 
--noincremental" fixed the config and the system was up and running again.

But why did xfs_repair restore files... For me it seems like xfs_repair 
restored an *old* version of openssl, which has been replaced by the 
system update process. This would mean: xfs_repair made a deleted file 
visible. Is this possible?

Yours

Manuel

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-21 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-16 20:10 System partially unusable after power loss Manuel Reimer
2010-09-16 20:55 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-09-21 21:30   ` Manuel Reimer [this message]
2010-09-22  4:15     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-09-24 20:44       ` Manuel Reimer
2010-09-16 21:23 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-09-17 20:15   ` Peter Grandi
2010-09-20  7:37     ` Michael Monnerie

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