Re: xfs_repair fails: mismatched UUID?

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> On Aug 16, 2017, at 10:48 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 8/17/17 12:42 AM, Link Dupont wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 00:26 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> Oh right, you did say RAID enclosure.
>>> 
>>> My money is on the enclosure no longer presenting you with sectors in
>>> the original order, or in an otherwise severely damaged form, for
>>> whatever reason.
>> 
>> The problem *could* be from the enclosure itself; I don't have a second one to
>> test. I'm fairly sure the cause is a failing drive (I get a red LED from one of
>> the two status LEDs on the front of the enclosure).
>> 
>>> xfs_repair restores filesystem consistency but it is not a data recovery or
>>> storage repair tool.  ;)
>> 
>> I get that. But since the files are there, it seemed like the file-system could
>> be repaired. I'll dig up the output.
> 
> My worry is that the "log uuid" was neither zeros nor the proper UUID; it was
> something else.  So it wasn't bad, unreadable sectors which got filled in with
> zeros by ddrescue, it was apparently some random data coughed up by the
> enclosure for some unknown reason.
> 
> If it did that to the log, it may well have done that to many other parts
> of the filesystem as well.
> 
> -Eric
> 

This almost makes it seem more like the enclosure controller is at fault here. I'll chase down another one.
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