XFS

1veedo · 12-16-2011, 03:38 PM

Image files are disappearing off my harddrive. Basically there are references to files that used to be there but they have zero bytes. I've noticed this happening before but it was always just a couple random files so I always thought my browser was messing up when downloading something. Recently though I was organizing a bunch of images and one folder in particular lost quite a few. All I did was reboot my computer. It should have been a clean reboot but for some reason it did a recovery...

Code:

[   10.369694] XFS mounting filesystem md127
[   10.821454] Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: md127 (logdev: internal)
[   26.103306] Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: md127 (logdev: internal)

Is there any way to look at a log of this recovery process? I assume this is what nuked everything.

I'm using sshfs on another computer but I had unmounted that drive and everything before hand... There are actually thumbnails still in gqview and thunar (file manager) from before the unmount / reboot but the images fail to load in the main window.

Here are a couple examples of files I have with zero bytes

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 username groupname       0  5月  2  2011 20110428144913-1.world according to 台湾.jpg

-rw-r--r-- 1 username groupname        0 12月 15 15:38 hs-2008-40-a-xlarge_web.jpg

1veedo · 12-16-2011, 07:10 PM

I might have figured out what's happening.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1025412

Quote:

Yes, this is unfortunately a "known feature" of XFS. The problem here is that XFS default "maximum write-cache time" is 30 seconds, whereas on e.g. Ext3 it's 5 seconds. So if you have a crash during those 30 seconds that XFS has not yet written its files from the cache onto the disk you will get those corrupted files with zero bytes length.

I have a habit of simply typing "reboot" to restart the computer and I guess if I'm using the filesystem over the network and then rebooting it's not properly storing files to the disk.

It's managed to lose 3,188 files... honestly I'm not that upset cause those are mostly scans of magazines, and it appears the majority of files that it lost are grouped together. I think the problem can be solved by remounting read only and syncing the filesystem before reboot. Ie

Code:

remount -r -o remount /filesystem
sync