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
>>> 
>>> 
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