[Samba] xfs filesystem corruption

[mourik jan c heupink]

Oops....

I worked 14 hours yesterday, and sent this mail to the wrong list....

Off course I wanted to send this to the SuSE list, and NOT Samba....

I apologise!!

Mourik Jan

gilbertonunes wrote:
> Em Ter 12 Jul 2005 20:56, James Peach escreveu:
>
> Hi
>
> Some days ago, I have the same problem with XFS file system...
>
> I just use xfs_repair, after umount the partition...
> This's a slow process, so be patience...
> I many case, this work very well...
> Mount your partition again and there's all your date....
> I hope :-)
>
> Do you wanna more?
> Read man xfs_repair
>
>
>   
>> 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).
>>
>> --
>> James Peach | jorgar at gmail.com
>>     
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