Eli Morris wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got this problem where if I run xfs_repair, my filesystem > shrinks by 11 TB, from a volume size of 62 TB to 51 TB. I can grow > the filesystem again with xfs_growfs, but then rerunning xfs_repair > shrinks it back down again. The first time this happened was a few > days ago and running xfs_repair took about 7 TB of data with it. That > is, out of the 11 TB of disk space that vanished, 7 TB had data on > it, and 4 TB was empty space. XFS is running on top of an LVM volume. > It's on an Intel/Linux system running Centos 5 (2.6.18-128.1.14.el5). Running 2.6.18-138.el5 and beyond will have a much more uptodate xfs, just FWIW. -Eric > Does anyone have an idea on what would cause such a thing and what I > might try to keep it from continuing to happen. I could just never > run xfs_repair again, but that doesn't seem like a good thing to > count on. Major bonus points if anyone has any ideas on how to get my > 7 TB of data back also. It must be there somewhere and it would be > very bad to lose. > > thanks for any help and ideas. I'm just stumped right now. > > Eli _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
