[Ilugc] xfs_repair - need help / pointers to recover files from hard disk

[Arun Khan]

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