Re: I had an occasion that XFS is not able to fully detect or recover from severe file system corruption

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It should be Fedora 23 (not Fedora 24). xfsprogs version should be 4.5.0.

The re-corruption issue happened about six hours after the first pass
of xfs_repair was completed.

Anyway I would file bug report if encounter this again.

Best regards,
Patrick

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 04:17:36AM +0800, Patrick Dung wrote:
>> > It's also possible that the filesystem somehow got re-corrupted between
>> the runs.
>>
>> For my case, the write back SSD caching device was removed permanently.
>> Somehow the xfs_repair did not fix all problems after the first pass.
>
> Just because the SSD caching device was not re-attached to the system, it
> doesn't mean the filesystem couldn't have been corrupted again, which is most
> likely the case, but it would be a nice idea if you check the xfsprogs version
> you used on the first and second time, just to make sure there were no known
> bugs on that that might have caused this.
>
> Cheers.
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Patrick
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 2/1/17 12:53 PM, Patrick Dung wrote:
>> >> Hi guys,
>> >>
>> >> The problem happened in last year. I do not have the corrupted file
>> >> system now. But I would like to discuss it. Any comment is welcomed.
>> >>
>> >> I was using Fedora 24. I had an XFS file system in an hard drive. I
>> >> had used some kind of  SSD write back caching on top of the hard
>> >> drive.
>> >>
>> >> Somehow the SSD was removed and when the system is rebooted, the XFS
>> >> file system could not be mounted.
>> >>
>> >> I run xfs_repair, it reported some files are corrupted. It had
>> >> completed the repair of file system and some files were corrupted.
>> >> Then I could mount the filesystem. I started using the existing files
>> >> that did not have corruption. After sometime, the file system stopped
>> >> again because it detected XFS file system is corrupted.
>> >>
>> >> Then I run xfs_repair again and it found additional files were still corrupted.
>> >>
>> >> So I have a question if xfs_repair is able to fully detect all files
>> >> that are corrupted by running xfs_repair only once.
>> >
>> > Yes, xfs_repair is intended to fix everything on the first pass.  Rarely,
>> > there are bugs when it does not.
>> >
>> > It's also possible that the filesystem somehow got re-corrupted between
>> > the runs.
>> >
>> > -Eric
>> >
>> >> Best regards,
>> >> Patrick
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