FS corruption noticed after using fio utility (Multithreaded IO generation tool)

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

Several XFS and Ext4 filesystems heavily corrupted after a reboot was initiated. System(s) unable to boot - reporting FS corruption and requesting a FS check to be done. A large amount of files was moved to lost+found after xfs_repair & fsck was executed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • fio package installed and used for testing

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