lord worm put forth on 1/29/2011 6:25 PM: > > What kind of information is in this file produced by metadump, is it worth reading it somehow? > > I'm trying to first understand what's causing a 'superblock cannot be read' error in my XFS after a succesfully dd of the partition (dd succeeds in copying to a file, and also restoring, but after restoring it cannot mount). > > xfs_repair fails to fix it, how should I attach the 55M metadata file to this email (do we have an upload location for this?), max size on hotmail is 25M ... > > Does the superblock error refer to primary or secondary superblocks? Does xfs_repair attempt to clone the broken superblock from the others? dd is not a proper XFS filesystem backup/restore utility. Instead use xfsdump and xfsrestore, or any file level backup/restore solution. You obviously now know why you shouldn't use dd for this purpose with XFS. ;) -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
