Scenario opensuse 15.5, the fs was originally created on an earlier opensuse release. The failed file system is on top of a mdadm raid 5, where other xfs file systems were also created, but only this one is having issues. The others are doing fine. xfs_repair and xfs_repair -L both fail: Phase 6 - check inode connectivity... - resetting contents of realtime bitmap and summary inodes - traversing filesystem ... - traversal finished ... - moving disconnected inodes to lost+found ... Phase 7 - verify and correct link counts... - 16:15:34: verify and correct link counts - 42 of 42 allocation groups done stripe width (17591899783168) is too large Metadata corruption detected at 0x55f819658468, xfs_sb block 0x0/0x1000 libxfs_bwrite: write verifier failed on xfs_sb bno 0x0/0x8 stripe width (17591899783168) is too large Metadata corruption detected at 0x55f819658468, xfs_sb block 0x0/0x1000 libxfs_bwrite: write verifier failed on xfs_sb bno 0x0/0x8 xfs_repair: Releasing dirty buffer to free list! xfs_repair: Refusing to write a corrupt buffer to the data device! xfs_repair: Lost a write to the data device! fatal error -- File system metadata writeout failed, err=117. Re-run xfs_repair. I ran xfs_repair multiple times, but I always get the same error. Is there any way to fix the above? I tried xfs_db on an image file I created from the file system, and I can see individual paths and file "good": xfs_db> path /certainpath xfs_db> ls 10 1550204032 directory 0x0000002e 1 . (good) 12 1024 directory 0x0000172e 2 .. (good) 25 1613125696 directory 0x99994f93 13 .AfterShotPro (good) Is there a way to extract files from the file system image without mounting the fs ? Or is there a way to mount the file system regardless of its state? Trying a regular mount, with or withour -o norecovery, I get: mount: /mnt: mount(2) system call failed: Structure needs cleaning. Regards.