Is it helpful updating the e2fsprogs to the newest version? I have
ever had a problem during e2fsck, after updating the e2fsprogs, it's
ok.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Having the actual error messages makes this kind of problem much easier to 
> solve.
>
> At a guess, if the journal was removed by e2fsck you can re-add it with 
> "tune2fs -J size=400 /dev/{mdsdev}".
>
> As for lfsck, if you still need to run it, you need to make sure the same 
> version of e2fsprogs is on all OSTs and MDS.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
>
> On 2011-04-06, at 1:26 AM, Werner Dilling <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> after a crash of our lustre system (1.6.4) we have problems repairing the 
>> filesystem. Running the 1.6.4 e2fsck failed on the mds filesystem so we 
>> tried with the latest 1.8 version which succeeded. But trying to mount mds 
>> as ldiskfs filesystem failed with the standard error message: bad superblock 
>> on ....
>> We tried to get more info and the file command
>> file -s -L /dev/.... produced "ext2 filesystem" instead of ext3 filesystem 
>> which we got from all ost-filesystems.
>> We were able to produce the mds-database which is needed to get info for lfs 
>> fsck. But using this database to create the ost databases failed with the 
>> error message: error getting mds_hdr (large number:8) in /tmp/msdb: Cannot 
>> allocate memory ..
>> So I assume the msdb is in bad shape and my question is how we can proceed. 
>> I assume we have to create a correct version of the mds-filesystem and how 
>> to do this is unknown. Any help and info is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> w.dilling
>>
>>
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