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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
