Hi there, I've just a big problem with my XFS file system used on a mdraid raid 5 array. It started with the situation that the mount of my device was not possible any more (don't know why, hdd's are OK). "xfs_repair" results in " ERROR: The log head and/or tail cannot be discovered. Attempt to mount the filesystem to replay the log or use the -L option to destroy the log and attempt a repair. " "xfs_repair -L " ran, but unfortunately it was interrupted by an automatic server shutdown after it stuck after stage 7. Now, "xfs_repair" results in " Phase 1 - Superblock finden und überprüfen... - Berichts-Prozess in Abständen von 15 Minutes Phase 2 - ein internes Protokoll benutzen - Null-Protokoll... Log inconsistent or not a log (last==0, first!=1) empty log check failed zero_log: cannot find log head/tail (xlog_find_tail=22) ERROR: The log head and/or tail cannot be discovered. Attempt to mount the filesystem to replay the log or use the -L option to destroy the log and attempt a repair. " A mount attemp results in " mount: /mnt/test: Falscher Dateisystemtyp, ungültige Optionen, der Superblock von /dev/md2 ist beschädigt, fehlende Kodierungsseite oder ein anderer Fehler. " And "xfs_repair -L" results in " Phase 1 - Superblock finden und überprüfen... - Berichts-Prozess in Abständen von 15 Minutes Phase 2 - ein internes Protokoll benutzen - Null-Protokoll... Log inconsistent or not a log (last==0, first!=1) empty log check failed zero_log: cannot find log head/tail (xlog_find_tail=22) " Sounds linke some kind of "Hen-egg" problem. Is there any change to get the XFS file sytem back running without recreating the filesystem? Kernel: " uname -r 4.16.12-1-default " Distribution: "Opensuse - Tumbleween" XFS tools: "xfs_repair Version 4.15.1" Thank you in advance, Kind regards, Thorsten Hufnagel -- 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