Dave, On more analysis of the corrupt disks seems exhibit a problem with duplicate rt inode extents. On mount this would be the assert: prev.br_state == XFS_EXT_NORM assert ) Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sda2 (logdev: internal) Assertion failed: del.br_startblock == prev.br_startblock + prev.br_blockcount, file: fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c, line: 5201 # xfs_repair –n /dev/sda2 –r /dev/sda3 .. .. Phase 2 - using internal log - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps... agi unlinked bucket 38 is 138790 in ag 3 (inode=50470438) .. .. Phase 4 - check for duplicate blocks... - setting up duplicate extent list... - check for inodes claiming duplicate blocks... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 - agno = 2 - agno = 3 data fork in rt ino 50470438 claims dup rt extent,off - 1024, start - 12963072, count 160 bad data fork in inode 50470438 would have cleared inode 50470438 sh-3.1# xfs_db /dev/sda2 xfs_db> inode 50470438 xfs_db> bmap data offset 0 startblock 11024384 (10/538624) count 256 flag 0 data offset 1024 startblock 12963072 (12/380160) count 160 flag 1 data offset 1184 startblock 12963232 (12/380320) count 1120 flag 0 data offset 2304 startblock 12951808 (12/368896) count 1024 flag 0 data offset 3328 startblock 12824064 (12/241152) count 768 flag 0 data offset 6356034 startblock 2392537314989568 (2281701388/366080) count 928 flag 0 Similar problem in context of xfs_repair was reported with respect to realtime extents on 2.6.37. Seems like unaligned extent size can cause sharing of the unwritten free part of a written with the next allocated unwritten adjecent extent . During runtime (with XFS_DEBUG enabled) we do notice that the same extent is being unlinked multiple times and an assert for. Assertion failed: fsb != NULLFSBLOCK, file: fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c, line: 875 I am wondering if this can cause corruption when it happens during runtime without XFS_DEBUG build. I was looking at a similar thread where you have commented regarding a possible fix in the kernel bug duplicate extent which overlap due unaligned rt extent size calculation. http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-09/msg00292.html Thanks Kamal -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/xfs-filesystem-corruption-with-kernel-2.6.37-tp34601185p34662440.html Sent from the Xfs - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs