[Ocfs2-users] Node crash, recovery problem

[Sunil Mushran]

Yes we've fixed a lot of bugs in this area since 1.2.2.

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:46:31AM -0500, Jeff Bachtel wrote:
> While rebooting a node last night, we had a umount failure on an ocfs2
> filesystem (it's the filesystem that is used by Xen, and xend
> frequently ends up locking the fs open in a kernel thread). We power
> cycled the machine, and ocfs2 mounting failed on subsequent reboot,
> due to another node blocking it:
> 
> Aug  1 18:16:36 vpr-app-01 kernel: (7111,0):dlm_query_join_handler:633 node 11 trying to joi
> n, but it still needs recovery.
> 
> The annoying solution for us was to eventually reboot the node that
> was blocking, as well. As this has happened to us in the past, is
> there a utility to force the recovery needed, on either the blocking
> or blocked node? Or to remove the node from the recovery list?
> 
> This is ocfs2 1.2.2 (patch 11) running on OpenSUSE 10.2. I would be
> ecstatic to move to a higher revision, unfortunately I don't know when
> the suse package maintainer will do so.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
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