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Message-ID: <4F1D8F90.3080909@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:49:20 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Paul Richter <iamcomcy@...il.com>
CC:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ext4 Filesystem recovery ...

On 1/21/12 12:23 AM, Paul Richter wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I am trying to recover 8Tb after a raid failure. RAID issues seem to
> be resolved, but cannot mount the fs,
> 
> dmesg says:
>  EXT4-fs (md127): bad geometry: block count 1953512448 exceeds size of
> device (1953509376 blocks)

Are you sure the md device is set up properly?  It seems to be 3072
shorter than the fs...

> OS sees ext4

What does that mean?

> have complete dd back of fs, so I can kick it around
> 
> debugfs cannot see fs structure.
> 
> fsck tried to fix every inode, but at 500M inodes (and would take a
> month to complete), that far exceeds used inodes
> 
> Am I beating a dead horse here, or is there some hope for recovery?

Off the top of my head, I think maybe your raid is not as happy as you
hope it is...

-Eric

> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
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