Thanks Stan. My comments inline... ---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 11:55:56 -0600 > From: stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: yguang11@xxxxxxxxxxx; xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: EIO and data corruption on XFS file system > > On 11/06/2014 07:03 AM, GuangYang wrote: >> Hello, >> While working on the storage system, I got one question in terms of the >> XFS utilities to fix file system corruption. Basically, our storage >> system put 3 copies of data and the system would detect data >> inconsistency on regular basis, there are two patterns we observed so >> far: 1) the data is corrupted which result in an EIO, 2) data is still >> accessible but the content is changed. >> >> I am wondering the way to fix such issues from file system's >> perspective, do we expect hardware failure for both cases or some xfs >> repairing tools could help for such case? > > xfs_repair addresses filesystem metadata inconsistencies/corruption. It > does not inspect file contents. If a file is corrupted xfs_repair can > do nothing for you. If you're seeing inconsistencies in file data the > problem is not XFS but something else, possibly hardware, as you suspect. > > What hardware is this? What RAID controllers? We are using the following disk: Disk: sdl (hpsa0): 6.0TB (23%) RAID-0 == 1 x 6TB 7.2K SATA 300MB/s ATA-ST6000NM0024-1HT and controller: Disk-Control: hpsa0: HP Smart Array P410, FW 6.40, Cache on 0B/512MB (R/W), BBU > > Cheers, > Stan > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
