Hosed XFS drive?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Mar 20 16:23:29 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:29:45AM -0400, Peter King wrote:
> Update: I had to do as suggested, xfs_repair -L, to zero out the
> logfile. Lots of files were recovered, renamed with numbers, and
> dumped into lost+found. It turns out the trick with that is to use
> find to locate the sub-sub-sub-directories of interest. Once I had
> done that, I copied the files off to a new drive, and all is well
> again. But it's the last time I use XFS for anything. At least ext2/3
> have never died on me.

yeah me too.  At least when ext3 has died on me there have been hardware
issues at fault.

XFS and reiser are off my lists for now.  Well actually my work desktop
still runs XFS, and has never had a problem, although it doesn't really
do a whole lot of disk accesses locally since I do all the development
on other machines so it is mainly just a terminal system.  I wouldn't
pick XFS for a new install though.

I have never tried JFS so maybe some day I will.

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