An update. I was extremely lucky - the hard disk started co-operating [1] and I was able to repair the XFS FS with xfs_check and xfs_repair.
The FS mounted w/o errors but started giving read errors after about 95% completion of rsync. Thereafter, through multiple iterations of xfs_check and xfs_repair sessions I have been able to recover close to 99% of my files. The HDD is definitely going back to WDC for replacement. [1] this happened after I had already generated a RMA for it :) -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
