On 6/10/05, Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:00 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: > > We have a large lvm2 logical volume (6.91T) which contains a JFS > > filesystem. The volumes accessed via emulex FC HBAs connected to a > > nexsan SAN. There was a bug in the SAN firmware that caused the > > primary controller to lose sync with the other controller and go down. > > Normally when this happens we are able to reboot the SAN and the > > server and then run fsck on the volume, and everything is fine (on a > > side note, we have updated the SAN firmware to fix the sync problem). > > however, fsck now segfaults and the volume is dirty so it can't be > > mounted. lvdisplay and vgdisplay seem to work fine displaying the > > correct info. Does anyone know what may be causing the problem or how > > we can fix it? If possible I'd like to save the data on the volumes. > > > > #> time fsck.jfs /dev/vg00/lvol0 > > fsck.jfs version 1.1.4, 30-Oct-2003 > > 1.1.4 is quite old. Can you try a recent version of jfsutils? > http://jfs.sourceforge.net/project/pub/jfsutils-1.1.8.tar.gz
sorry, I should have mentioned that. we also tried 1.1.7 with the same result. I can try 1.1.8 too. > > If that doesn't work, you can try running "fsck.jfs > --omit_journal_replay", since it is trapping while replaying the > journal. If all else fails, you should be able to mount it read-only > (mount -oro) to recover the data. cool I'll give that a try. Thanks! Alex > > Thanks, > Shaggy > -- > David Kleikamp > IBM Linux Technology Center > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
