[ale] And now for my latest problem: stuck mount points with no mount

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 10:35 -0400, Steve Brown wrote:
> This same situation happened to me a few weeks ago. I am using LVM
> with XFS, however.  I ended up taking the entry out of fstab and
> restarting, just to ensure that the fs was not mounted. Then I ran
> either xfs_check or xfs_repair (or both?). I came to the conclusion
> that the harddrives in the volume group are dying, although they are
> still working and I only had a few corrupted files. HTH,

I was thinking HDD failure...

but badblocks says everything's A-OK.

For the moment, things seem to be running... but the next time they
stop, I'll do a forced fsck on all the filesystems and see if there's
anything disturbing.

(That said, I've learned -- the hard way -- to not trust XFS.  It's
eaten my data on three separate occasions where ext3 was perfectly happy
to operate...)

	--- Mike

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