Yes, upgrading to the latest e2fsprogs is generally safe. Cheers, Andreas
On 2011-04-06, at 8:18 PM, Larry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
