Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jul 2006 08:50:44 +1000 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: thank you, xfs team |
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On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:11:17AM +0200, Hungerburg wrote: > hello there, > > I hope this is not the wrong place, yet I have to write this now, before > I forget about it:
xfs@oss.sgi.com is the best place.
> I had to swap a dying harddrive. after receiving many mails from the > smart daemon, recent kernel patches to xfs made me aware of the full > extent of the problem.
Hmm, the second part of that sentence doesn't make sense to me.
> keywords: > - XFS internal error XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_RETURN > - Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > - Device: /dev/hda, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors
This looks like expected behaviour - XFS shut down the filesystem on detecting IO errors on filesystem metadata blocks.
> the tools to copy what is still there (data) are a boon - they require > some reading, but the thing is doable (xfs_copy to good disk, then > xfs_dump from there)
OK, good to hear.
cheers.
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