On 1/23/12 3:23 AM, Christian Kildau wrote: > On Jan 23, 2012, at 5:31 AM, Dave Chinner wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:29:15AM +0100, Christian Kildau wrote: >>> Sorry if this message appears twice! >>> Argh. ;) >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm having some very serious issues with XFS after upgrading from a >>> Linux Distro running Ubuntu 2.6.32 to 3.2. >>> >>> It seems like my filesystems are damaged after attaching them to a >>> Linux 3.2 server. I am also no longer able to mount the hdd on the old >>> server that is still running 2.6.32! >> >> I take it that you are using external storage of some kind? Can you >> describe it? > > This hdd is connected via e-sata, but it doesn't make any difference if I directly connect it internally via sata. > Also it doesn't make any difference if I connect it back to the 'old' server > >> >>> (I created the xfs filesystem on the entire hdd, not on a partition, >>> so /dev/sdd is not a typo) I wonder if your installer helpfully scribbled something on it since it had no partitions (which should be safe, but there are dumb apps out there). >>> $ sudo mount -t xfs /dev/sdd /media/ >>> mount: /dev/sdd: can't read superblock >>> (dmesg) >>> [236659.912663] attempt to access beyond end of device >>> [236659.912667] sdd: rw=32, want=2930277168, limit=2930275055 >>> [236659.912670] XFS (sdd): last sector read failed >> >> So XFS has asked to read 2113 sectors beyond the size of the device >> that the kernel is reporting. What is the output of >> /proc/partitions? > > $ grep sdd /proc/partitions > 8 64 1465137527 sdd so 1465137527*1024 = 1500300827648 bytes >From the strace repair is trying to read at: pread(4, "", 512, 1500301909504) = 0 which is about 1 meg past the end of the device. >> >>> $ sudo xfs_check /dev/sdd >>> xfs_check: error - read only 0 of 512 bytes >>> >>> $ sudo xfs_repair /dev/sdd >>> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... >>> xfs_repair: error - read only 0 of 512 bytes >> >> So both buffered and direct IO to the first block in the block >> device are failing. I'd say your problems have nothing to do with >> XFS. However, can you strace them and find out what the error that >> is occuring actually is? > > Strace is giving me: > wait4(-1, xfs_check: /dev/sdd is not a valid XFS filesystem (unexpected SB magic number 0x00000000) now that is something else... > xfs_check: WARNING - filesystem uses v1 dirs,limited functionality provided. > xfs_check: read failed: Invalid argument > cache_node_purge: refcount was 1, not zero (node=0x21ecef0) > xfs_check: cannot read root inode (22) > bad superblock magic number 0, giving up those are different failures than first reported.... xfs_db -c "sb 0" -c "p" /dev/sdd still might be interesting. -Eric > I attached the entire strace logs to this email. > > > > > > Do you have any idea what has caused this or how to fix it? > > Thanks in advance! > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs