> > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:19:38 +0100 > From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: xfs_repair of critical volume > To: Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <20101113091938.1d0553a8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Le Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:14:52 -0600 vous ?criviez: > >> This isn't "robustness" Michael. If anything it's a serious problem. > > I beg to disagree. Would it be better if instead of still having some > of the data, everything was lost? At what level of accidental > destruction do you think that the whole data set should be made > unavailable? 10%? 5? 1? > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique > | Intellique > | <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > | +33 1 78 94 84 02 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:28:45 -0600 > From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: xfs_repair of critical volume > To: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <4CDE5A4D.9090905@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Emmanuel Florac put forth on 11/13/2010 2:19 AM: >> Le Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:14:52 -0600 vous ?criviez: >> >>> This isn't "robustness" Michael. If anything it's a serious problem. >> >> I beg to disagree. Would it be better if instead of still having some >> of the data, everything was lost? At what level of accidental >> destruction do you think that the whole data set should be made >> unavailable? 10%? 5? 1? > > You've missed the point of this sub thread discussion, or I did. He > stated that having the metadata show the files still exist is a positive > thing. The files are gone. I stated that this discrepancy is not good > thing. > > I believe you are confused, thinking this micro discussion is dealing > with the OP's overall situation. It is not. It is dealing strictly > with the issue of the lost set of disks, the files that were on them, > and the fact the metadata says they still exist. I believe this is due > to the fact that he hasn't run a destructive xfs_repair yet, which I'm > guessing will remove those orphaned metadata entries. > > Again, I'm pretty sure you misunderstood exactly what we were talking > about, or I misunderstood what he was talking about, heck, maybe both. > I absolutely was not stating anything akin to throwing the baby out with > the bath water. > > -- > Stan Hi, Just to clarify, I have run the destructive xfs_repair command a few times. I still have the same thing going on where the filesystem says the files are there when clearly they aren't. thanks, Eli _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
