On 1/12/2014 7:28 AM, Zachary Kotlarek wrote: > My XFS filesystem dismounted while copying a ~3 GB file. I won’t > claim to know why; I’m fairly confident only that 1 file was being > modified at the time. The log replayed cleanly when remounting, but > attempting to remove the file in question caused the same dismount. > > So I ran xfs_repair. It put one file in lost+found (which appears to > be written when if failed initially) and reported a number or > warnings to the effect of: bad hash table for directory inode 2054 > (hash value mismatch): rebuilding rebuilding directory inode 2054 > which I didn’t take to be serious, though I suspect now that’s where > things went wrong. > > I now have 23 directories (matching the 23 “rebuilding" messages) > where a file or directory with non-ASCII characters in the name > exists in the directory list but cannot be read or deleted: > > ls -la ls: cannot access 07 - Señor Macho Solo.m4v: No such file or > directory -rw-rw----+ 1 profplump media 332M Sep 11 2010 06 - > Christmas Special.m4v ??????????? ? ? ? ? > ? 07 - Se??or Macho Solo.m4v -rw-rw----+ 1 profplump media 304M Sep > 11 2010 08 - Flu Shot.m4v > > So the file exists in the directory listing (`ls` and `find` can both > see it) but I cannot delete or stat or open it. If I touch the > affected filename I get a second entry in the directory listing, both > apparently pointing to the same, new, empty file. If I then delete > the same filename I get back to the original state — a single, > unusable directory entry. > > I’d like to (if possible) re-link those directory listings to the > related files, or at least delete them so the files can be restored > and folders can be used normally. I’m also worried that running > xfs_repair in the future might re-create this problem. > > But I don’t even know where to start in trying to fix this. And I > still cannot delete the file that started this whole sequence of > events. So if anyone has suggestions I’d be happy to hear them. Start here: http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_What_information_should_I_include_when_reporting_a_problem.3F If this is due to a bug it may have already been fixed. Note the first two things asked for. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs