[Ocfs2-devel] How can ecc be corrected?

[Goldwyn Rodrigues]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Sunil Mushran
<sunil.mushran at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Cool. I have sent a set of 3 patches on the tools mailing list. Let me
know if it works for you.

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Goldwyn