Good morning, i was stupid enough to format my raid5 disks with xfs and broke the raid instantly :/ Now i tried to rebuild the raid5 with 3 disks but have issues to restore the filesystem on top or even restore files with photorec. Any help is greatly appreciated. Some details: The old raid was in the form (sda6, sdb6, sdc6): /dev/sdc6: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 342ec726:3804270d:5917dd5f:c24883a9 Name : TS-XLB6C:2 Creation Time : Fri Dec 23 17:58:59 2011 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 1923497952 (917.20 GiB 984.83 GB) Array Size : 1923496960 (1834.39 GiB 1969.66 GB) Used Dev Size : 1923496960 (917.19 GiB 984.83 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=992 sectors State : active Device UUID : d27a69d0:456f3704:8e17ac75:78939886 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Wed Jul 27 19:08:08 2016 Checksum : de9dbd10 - correct Events : 11543 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) As all md superblocks were gone, i recreated it and got: /dev/mapper/sdb6: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : da61174d:9567c4df:fcea79f1:38024893 Name : grml:42 (local to host grml) Creation Time : Thu Sep 22 05:14:11 2016 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 1923497952 (917.20 GiB 984.83 GB) Array Size : 1923496960 (1834.39 GiB 1969.66 GB) Used Dev Size : 1923496960 (917.19 GiB 984.83 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1960 sectors, after=992 sectors State : clean Device UUID : d0c61415:186b446b:ca34a8c6:69ed5b18 Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Thu Sep 22 05:14:11 2016 Bad Block Log : 512 entries available at offset 72 sectors Checksum : bba25a31 - correct Events : 1 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Now i tried xfs_repair on the raid but got: >> root@grml ~ # xfs_repair /dev/md42 >> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... >> bad primary superblock - bad magic number !!! >> >> attempting to find secondary superblock... >> ........................................... >> found candidate secondary superblock... >> unable to verify superblock, continuing... >> found candidate secondary superblock... >> error reading superblock 22 -- seek to offset 2031216754688 failed >> unable to verify superblock, continuing... >> found candidate secondary superblock... >> unable to verify superblock, continuing... >> ..found candidate secondary superblock... >> verified secondary superblock... >> writing modified primary superblock >> - reporting progress in intervals of 15 minutes >> sb root inode value 18446744073709551615 (NULLFSINO) inconsistent with >> calculated value 2048 >> resetting superblock root inode pointer to 2048 >> sb realtime bitmap inode 18446744073709551615 (NULLFSINO) inconsistent > > Those big ones strike me as imaginary numbers. > >> with calculated value 2049 >> resetting superblock realtime bitmap ino pointer to 2049 >> sb realtime summary inode 18446744073709551615 (NULLFSINO) >> inconsistent with calculated value 2050 >> resetting superblock realtime summary ino pointer to 2050 >> Phase 2 - using internal log >> - zero log... >> totally zeroed log >> - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps... >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> Metadata corruption detected at block 0x8/0x1000 >> bad magic number >> Metadata corruption detected at block 0x23d3f408/0x1000 >> bad magic numberbad magic number >> >> Metadata corruption detected at block 0x2afe5808/0x1000 >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> bad magic number >> Metadata corruption detected at block 0x10/0x1000 >> Metadata corruption detected at block 0xe54c808/0x1000 >> bad magic # 0x494e81f6 for agf 0 >> bad version # 16908289 for agf 0 >> bad sequence # 99 for agf 0 >> bad length 99 for agf 0, should be 15027328 >> flfirst 1301384768 in agf 0 too large (max = 1024) >> bad magic # 0x494e81f6 for agi 0 >> bad version # 16908289 for agi 0 >> bad sequence # 99 for agi 0 >> bad length # 99 for agi 0, should be 15027328 >> reset bad agf for ag 0 >> reset bad agi for ag 0 >> Metadata corruption detected at block 0xd6f7b808/0x1000 >> Metadata corruption detected at block 0x2afe5810/0x1000 >> bad on-disk superblock 6 - bad magic number >> primary/secondary superblock 6 conflict - AG superblock geometry info >> conflicts with filesystem geometry >> zeroing unused portion of secondary superblock (AG #6) >> [1] 23110 segmentation fault xfs_repair /dev/md42 But it ends with a segfault. How screwed am I? Am i even on the right track with the underlying raid? thank you. simon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html