xfs_repair appears to have hung while repairing a filesystem on RHEL

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • xfs_repair appears to have hung while repairing a large filesystem.
  • xfs_repair is taking a very long time to finish

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • xfsprogs versions prior to xfsprogs-4.5.0-22.el7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    • xfsprogs versions prior to xfsprogs-5.0.0-12.el8

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