Re: XFS filesystem corruption on the arm(el) architecture

Eric Sandeen
2008-10-19T03:06:55Z

Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:57:56AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>> * Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> [2008-10-17 09:15]:
>>> If you unmount & remount, does the ls work then?
>> I cannot even mount it:
>>
>> debian:~# mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda5
>> meta-data=/dev/sda5 isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=94380 blks
>> = sectsz=512 attr=2
>> data = bsize=4096 blocks=377519, imaxpct=25
>> = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
>> naming =version 2 bsize=4096
>> log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2
>> = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
>> realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
>> debian:~# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
>> [42949596.920000] XFS mounting filesystem sda5
>> debian:~# cp /usr/bin/* /mnt/
>> debian:~# umount /mnt
>> debian:~# mount -t xfs /dev/sda5 /mnt
>> [42949612.290000] XFS mounting filesystem sda5
>> [42949612.460000] Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sda5 (logdev: internal)
>> [42949612.480000] XFS: xlog_recover_process_data: bad flag
>> [42949612.500000] XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5
>> [42949612.500000] XFS: log mount failed
>> mount: /dev/sda5: can't read superblock
>> debian:~#
>
> That's the log replay indicating that there's a bad transaction
> header in the log. Very strange - it shoul dbe a clean log. What
> does xfs_logprint -t /dev/sda5 tell you about the transactions
> in the log?

This is probably the vmap cache aliasing problem that we paid a bit of
attention to a few months ago, no?

-Eric