Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:39:02 -0500 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org> Subject: lost inode, no backup Message-ID: <m2liq0vki1.wl%randy@psg.com>
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FreeBSD ran.psg.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #4: Sat Dec 24 12:33:51 UTC 2011 root@ran.psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RAN amd64 so doing all the wonderful holiday security upgrades and hit an ugly. these two problems may not be related. ---- problem one on reboot, /usr/home was empty, as iff the inode had been lost. but no lost+found and fsck found no problem. # df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 5.2G 1.6G 3.1G 34% / devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev /dev/da0s1d 2.1G 356M 1.6G 19% /var /dev/da0s1e 2.1G 1.8M 1.9G 0% /var/spool /dev/da0s1f 138G 111G 15G 88% /usr /dev/md0 259M 36k 238M 0% /tmp and we know /usr/home was fine before the reboot as i was running out of it, backup ran out of it, ... ---- problem two so i go for the local raid which is the target of the ever faithful backup job, the essence of which is # 4 - /usr /sbin/dump 0Luaf - /dev/da0s1f | $SSH $USYS "/bin/cat > $DDIR/usr" and which had run quite happily a few hours before DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Dec 24 00:47:42 2011 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/da0s1f (/usr) to standard output DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 56969906 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: 0.78% done, finished in 10:36 at Sat Dec 24 11:29:34 2011 DUMP: 1.52% done, finished in 10:47 at Sat Dec 24 11:45:15 2011 ... DUMP: 97.88% done, finished in 0:05 at Sat Dec 24 05:13:38 2011 DUMP: DUMP: 56980137 tape blocks DUMP: finished in 15750 seconds, throughput 3617 KBytes/sec DUMP: level 0 dump on Sat Dec 24 00:47:42 2011 DUMP: DUMP IS DONE except that on all backups since the system moved to 10-current, home is empty in the usr file!!! all other directories there are good. and we know /usr/home was good, see above. the bleeping dump user has its directory there. ---- luckily i had other means of restoring. but wtf? randy
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