Hi I apologize first if this message appears a number of times, but my two yahoo email accounts do not seem to be able to deliver to the mailing list from afternoon till now and I have to use this account. I just had a power outage and my Acer notebook computer running openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 with kernel 2.6.37 stopped as a result. After I reset the circuit breaker I was unable to boot the OS. I booted up the openSUSE 11.4 rescue disk (installation media). I ran the S.M.A.R.T. short self-test with smartctl on the W.D. Caviar Black 320 GB drive and there were no errors. The S.M.A.R.T. parameters all look OK. I have not run the long self test though. I am able to mount the /home to /mnt on the rescue session and I see no error in /var/log/messages. I then tried again to mount the root file system to /mnt. Aug 30 14:21:59 Rescue kernel: [ 811.166914] XFS mounting filesystem sdb2 Aug 30 14:21:59 Rescue kernel: [ 811.212169] Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sdb2 (logdev: internal) Aug 30 14:21:59 Rescue kernel: [ 811.334157] XFS: Invalid block length (0xfffffffc) given for buffer Aug 30 14:21:59 Rescue kernel: [ 811.334175] XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 117 Aug 30 14:21:59 Rescue kernel: [ 811.334230] XFS: log mount failed XFS Check will not run since log recovery mount has not been done. What is the cause of the recovery failure and what is the recommended course of action? I have tried the metadump and restore, then do a xfs_repair -L on the metadump image, with xfs_repair version 3.1.8. The repair is successful and there are also some files copied to lost+found. I would like to know the cause of this log recovery failure and if there is another alternative to xfs_repair -L, since I do not really know what files I would lose with the inodes being changed, and also I do not know what the files in lost+found are. Thank you for your assistance. GL _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
