[Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on EL5

[Ulf Zimmermann]

- -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:sunil.mushran at oracle.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 10:09 AM
> To: Ulf Zimmermann
> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on
> EL5
> 
> I'll look at the tunefs issue. But the other one does not make sense.
> strict_jbd is a compat flag. Mount should work. What is the mount
> error? As in, in dmesg.

I don't see any dmesg or /var/log/messages, but the error I saw was from tunefs:

demodb01 root /home/ulf # /usr/bin/yes | /sbin/tunefs.ocfs2 -U -L /export/u07 /dev/mapper/u07 
tunefs.ocfs2 1.2.7
tunefs.ocfs2: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) while opening device /dev/mapper/u07


> 
> On 09/25/2011 04:43 AM, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> > As tunefs.ocfs2 wasn't working for us, I tried to mkfs.ocfs2 the volumes
> again with --fs-feature-level=max-compat. This still turns on strict-journal-
> super and there seems no way around this? This makes the volume not
> compatible with OCFS 1.2.9
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ocfs2-users-bounces at oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-
> >> bounces at oss.oracle.com] On Behalf Of Ulf Zimmermann
> >> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:43 AM
> >> To: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
> >> Subject: [Ocfs2-users] Problem with tunefs.ocfs2, similar to fsck.ocfs2 on
> EL5
> >>
> >> We are running into a problem which looks like the same we had with
> >> fsck.ocfs2 a while back. This is with ocfs2-tools 1.4.4. I am trying to use
> >> tunefs.ocfs2 to turn off some features. The program starts up but then
> starts
> >> eating all available memory and more and the system starts to swap like
> crazy
> >> in and out. This is exactly the same behavior as the fsck.ocfs2 for which
> we
> >> were given a patched binary.
> >>
> >> I tried to compile the tunefs.ocfs2 from 1.6.x but the same problem with
> that
> >> binary.
> >>
> >> Ulf.
> >>
> >>
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