[Ocfs2-users] fsck.ocfs2

[Xavier Diumé]

I don't know if is it possible, but kernel panic error is not in
/var/log/kern.log.

2011/5/13 Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com>

>  Please do not remove the cc-s.
>
> Hard for me to comment without knowing anything about the panic.
>
> However, assuming that the panic message indicated that the volume
> needs to be fsck-ed. In that case, the best course is to umount the
> volume on all nodes and running fsck on one node.
>
>
> On 05/13/2011 12:33 PM, Xavier Diumé wrote:
>
> But initially the system had devices in /etf/fstab with _netdev option.
> When system starts mounting a kernel panic appears, sometimes after few
> minuts.
> The only way that I could start the system was mounting all devices one by
> one, with a previups fsck.
> I don't know if it is the better way, but is the only that I've used
> succesfully.
>
> 2011/5/13 Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com>
>
>> On 05/13/2011 11:44 AM, Xavier Diumé wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Is it possible to fsck a mounted filesystem. When one of the cluster
>>> nodes reboots because a kernel panic, the device requires fsck.ocfs2 because
>>> in mounted.ocfs2 -f rebooted node is shown.
>>>
>>
>>  If mounted.ocfs2 -f shows the rebooted node, that means the slotmap
>> has not been cleaned up as yet. That cleanup happens during node
>> recovery. If the volume is still mounted on another node, it will get
>> cleaned up momentarily.
>>
>> If however it does not get cleaned up, that means that the volume is
>> not mounted on any node. In that case, the next mount will clean
>> up slotmap.
>>
>> Either way one does not need to fsck just to cleanup the slotmap.
>>
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>
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> Xavier Diumé
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>
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