[Samba] xfs filesystem corruption

[James Peach]

On 7/13/05, mourik jan c heupink <heupink at intech.unu.edu> wrote:
> dear list.
> 
> I was just wondering, is there anyone here using sles9 with xfs in an lvm?
> 
> We had severe filesystem corruption on a server today, and only two
> things were changed: I updated via yast online update (lot's of updates,
> strange enough, including an lvm update) and I had to replace a drive in
> my hardware 6 disk raid array. (IBM 5i, raid 5)
> 
> Now I was wondering what caused the corruption: the lvm updates, or the
> disk change... (or even something else..?) therefore I'm asking here...
> 
> Anyone having xfs/lvm problems/corruption after the updates?

This could be a lot of things. If you lost a disk, it might be
possible for the volume rebuild to fail. Losing a drive at the same
time as an LVM update sounds a little fishy, but I don't have any
experience with LVM.

You might try asking the XFS folks on linux-xfs at oss.sgi.com. Someone
there will probably have some experience with the XFS/LVM combination.
You'll need to provide the output of xfs_growfs -n for the filesystem
in question, as well as the LVM config details and all the package
version numbers (ie. for the original LVM package and the one you
updated to).

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James Peach | jorgar at gmail.com