Thanks for the advice everyone. I updated to e2fsprogs-1.41.6.sun1 (much better for clearing that MMP block, and I'm sure there are other benefits) and re-ran e2fsck. With the e2fsprogs-1.40.11.sun1 version of e2fsck and ltrace resulted in a seg-fault, but with the new version the ltrace shows that e2fsck isn't doing anything other then consuming CPU.
I'm ready to repave the OST unless anyone has any ideas. I mean, if e2fsck fails... what's left to do? Thanks, Adam On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:44 -0400, Adam wrote: > What if there *are* serious file-system problems? We're half-way into > CPU hour 7 of our e2fsck run on a 8TB OST with ~274 million inodes: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > ##### root 25 0 15.1g 1.1g 772 R 100 57.4 472:07.67 e2fsck > > If it finishes within my lifetime I'll post how long it takes. > > Thanks, > Adam > > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 04:35 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2009 15:16 +0800, huangql wrote: > > > We want to run e2fsck on OSTs to finish them. However, as to the > > > running time, we should estimate how long it takes to run e2fsck on > > > OSTs. We hopefully to know what elements to affect the running time like > > > the size of OST, the average size of files and so on. Can you give us > > > the tips for it? And I hope to receive you email as soon as possible. > > > > The variables in your question are numerous: > > - size of the filesystem > > - number of inodes > > - number of allocated blocks > > - distribution of the above on the disk > > - speed of the disks > > - speed of the CPU > > - amount of RAM on server > > > > Reasonable e2fsck times (without serious filesystem problems) might > > take between 5 minutes and 2 hours. > > > > Cheers, Andreas > > -- > > Andreas Dilger > > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Lustre-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
