Final follow-up;

On Februari 9th, the filesystem became unmountable and unrepairable.

We copied the logical volume to an external harddisk for analysis by
Kroll Ontrack. It took their engineers 4 weeks to finalize this; they
told me that they had never experienced this much corruption before but
managed to get roughly 80% of data back.

Of course this was big disaster for everyone (it hosted personal and
shared files as well as mailboxes for 5500 users).

In spite of Brian's remarks I really think it was caused by the unique
hardware-failure inside the server (somehow it killed power to all
internal components). In my opinion, XFS is still rock solid (as long as
there's some juice) although I'm developing a growing interest in ZFS.

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XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1164 of file 
/build/buildd/linux-2.6.27/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294259
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