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Piszcz, Justin Michael wrote:

> Ah, good question, yes I used xfs_repair, at this point I knew I had to
> restore from backup and answered "y" to all questions.  I am not sure
> but I do not recall the log being dirty.

Hm, xfs_repair does not ask any questions.

> In the logs on my main machine, it showed the following when it
> attempted to mount the two filesystems (root and boot, /dev/hde4 and
> /dev/hde1 respectively).

> Dec  5 08:23:53 jpiszcz kernel: XFS internal error
> XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO at line 1583 of file fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c.  Caller
> 0xc021de57
(having trouble replaying the log here)

Ok, so XVM has found something wrong at this point.  Any chance the box 
had a power failure?  Write caches on ide drives can wreak havoc with 
journaling filesystems...  i.e. what happened between "the filesystem 
was working" and "i remounted the filesystem and got this"

>
> As far as bad disk/memory, I have tested both systems with memtest86 and
> the result was 0 errors, as far as the disks go, I have not experienced
> any problems with either of them until I moved to 2.6.9/2.6.10-rc{1,2}.

ok

-Eric