Re: [Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message?

2011-10-12 Thread Sunil Mushran
Not sure what you mean by a partition table crash. Is it that someone overwrote the partition table on the iscsi server? That's what it looks like. If mount cannot detect the fs type, then it means atleast superblock corruption. And such corruptions typically caused by external entities. Stray dd

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message?

2011-10-12 Thread Sunil Mushran
Mushran' *Cc:* 'ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com' *Subject:* RE: [Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message? Thanks Suni. Yes the terminology should be super block corruption. I checked with my colleague they said the ISCSI server suffered a power outage yesterday so they rebooted

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message?

2011-10-12 Thread Frank Zhang
Sorry, it's not power outage, it's just a normal reboot. Is this serious to corrupt the super block? From: Frank Zhang Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:37 AM To: 'Sunil Mushran' Cc: 'ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com' Subject: RE: [Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message?

2011-10-12 Thread Sunil Mushran
block? *From:*Frank Zhang *Sent:* Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:37 AM *To:* 'Sunil Mushran' *Cc:* 'ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com' *Subject:* RE: [Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message? Thanks Suni. Yes the terminology should be super block corruption. I checked with my

Re: [Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message?

2011-10-12 Thread Frank Zhang
to recover it From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:sunil.mush...@oracle.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:08 AM To: Frank Zhang Cc: 'ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com' Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message? Not sure what you mean by a partition table crash

[Ocfs2-users] Partition table crash, where can I find debug message?

2011-10-11 Thread Frank Zhang
Hi Experts, recently I observed a partition table crash that made me really scared. I have two OVM servers sharing OCFS2 over iscsi, after running a bunch of VMs for a while, all VMs were gone and I saw the mount points of OCFS2 gone on both hosts. Then I tried to mount it again, the iscsi