. . wrote: > > Can anyone shed any light as to what the issue might be? Is it XFS or > is it the card? I went with XFS as all the research I did indicated > that it gave the best performance for the millions of small files in > the backups we run and doesn't have any many issues with hardlinks as > EXT3. My guess is that a hardware problem (no idea what) back in August caused some corruption in the file system. Did you run xfs_repair after the problem in August? Have you run xfs_repair after the most recent XFS shutdown? James Pearson