[Ocfs2-devel] How can ecc be corrected?

[Sunil Mushran]

On 06/17/2011 04:16 PM, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:14:36PM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
>>>> If you have ideas, do share.
>>> No ideas as such. I raised this question because a customer was facing
>>> this issue with the superblock and no way to fix it. Fortunately, he
>>> can still use the filesystem. It is debugfs.ocfs2 which is failing. I
>>> guess I will have to work on a patch to fix this.
>> So I remember we had a bug in tunefs that changed the superblock
>> without recomputing the checksum. It has been fixed since.
>>
>> How can he still use the fs?
>>
>> One solution is to disable it... manually. And then re-enable it using
>> the latest tunefs.
> 	I thought we were going to patch fsck.ocfs2 to run in an
> ignore-metaecc mode?


Oh I did not know we had decided on that. Though that appears to be the
best solution. fsck and debugfs always run in ignore-metaecc mode. fsck
will need a fixup code for that.