Often when primary super block is corrupted, and xfs_repair is run on it, it try to find the secondary super block traversing in block units from XFS_AG_MIN_BYTES to end of partition. Now the problem is at first place we do not know whether we actually have secondary super block or not on partition, because if we know this inadvance then we may not waste time in scanning a complete disk. User point of view is that its like xfs_repair hangs (offcourse developer knows its not, point of view are different) 1. In which case secondary super block is created, is it created during format itself, if yes then at what location. 2. In our case we always find that when ever primary super block is corrupted, xfs_repair never find secondary super block also, so we are doubt ful of its existence. If its not there then we can just exit xfs_repair instead of waiting for minutes. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
