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Hi:<br>
<br>
I am running a two-node Oracle VM Server 2.2.2 installation. We
were having some strange problems creating new virtual machines, so
I shut down the systems and unmounted the OVS Repository (ocfs2 file
system on Equallogic equipment).<br>
<br>
I ran a fsck -y first, which replayed the logs and said all was
clean. But, I am pretty sure there are other issues, so I started
an fsck -fy<br>
<br>
One of the messages I got was:<br>
<br>
Cluster 161213953 is claimed by the following inodes:<br>
<76289548><br>
/running_pool/450_gebidb/System.img<br>
[DUP_CLUSTERS_CLONE] Inode "(null)" may be cloned or deleted to
break the claim it has on its clusters. Clone inode "(null)" to
break claims on clusters it shares with other inodes? y<br>
<br>
I then watched with an strace -p <fsck process> to see what
was happening, since it was taking a long time with no messages. I
see:<br>
<br>
pwrite64(3,
"INODE01\0H\26O}\377\377\22\0\0\0\0\0\0$\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 90112) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"EXBLK01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0+\3H\26O}\306\374&\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 10465599488) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"GROUP01\0\300\17\0\4P\0\0\0H\26O}\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 10462699520) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"INODE01\0H\26O}\377\377\22\0\0\0\0\0\0$\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 90112) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"EXBLK01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0/\3H\26O}\302\374&\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 10465583104) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"GROUP01\0\300\17\0\4Q\0\0\0H\26O}\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 10462699520) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"INODE01\0H\26O}\377\377\22\0\0\0\0\0\0$\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 90112) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"EXBLK01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0003\3H\26O}\274\374&\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 10465558528) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"INODE01\0H\26O}\0\0L\0\0\0\0\0\24\346\17\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 2686701568) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"GROUP01\0\300\17\0~\3\0#\0H\26O}\0\0\0\0\0n\0\1\0\0\0\0"..., 4096,
100940120064) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"INODE01\0H\26O}\377\377\7\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 45056) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"GROUP01\0\300\17\0\4P\0\0\0H\26O}\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 10462699520) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"INODE01\0H\26O}\377\377\22\0\0\0\0\0\0$\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 90112) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"EXBLK01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\272\2H\26O}\274\374&\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 10465558528) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"EXBLK01\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0003\3H\26O}\274\374&\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 10465558528) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"GROUP01\0\300\17\0\4O\0\0\0H\26O}\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 10462699520) = 4096<br>
pwrite64(3,
"INODE01\0H\26O}\377\377\22\0\0\0\0\0\0$\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
4096, 90112) = 4096<br>
<br>
This is going on and on. It looks like it is writing lots of
entries to fix one duplicate inode???<br>
<br>
At this point, I have aborted the fsck, as I am worried that it is
completely trashing our OVS repository disk.<br>
<br>
Can anybody shed some light on this before I restart the fsck? We
need to be back up and running ASAP!<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance!<br>
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