Doug: We are also running in a production mode. So, we have jobs that backup the berkeley databases every so often. This is not ideal by any means; the filesystem should REALLY be in a quiesced state before the backups are taken. Until we have better redundancy in the system, this will have to do.
Becky -- Becky Ligon PVFS Developer Clemson University 864-656-3865 > Doug Johnson wrote: >> At Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:22:21 -0500, >> Phil Carns wrote: >>> [1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>] >>> Yeah, that's a problem. Each of those databases uses a different sort >>> order, so you'll need to try again with a slightly different >>> modification to BDB. I updated the documentation in trunk and attached >>> the new version to this email. I haven't had an opportunity to test it >>> yet, but it's a pretty simple change. >>> >> >> I've tried the db_load with PINT_trove_dbpf_ds_attr_compare, >> unfortunately the same error is encountered on startup. I also >> attempted using '-R' with db_dump, but same result. >> >> We've contacted the larger users to give them a heads up, but I will >> be creating a new file system today. I plan to keep the old >> directories for further recovery attempts, we have a multi-day outage >> scheduled next month and we could try some additional recovery steps >> (plus we're upgrading to 2.8.2 at that time.) Thanks for your help >> with this problem. > > Ok. Thanks for the status update, and sorry to hear that the recovery > didn't work out better. > > -Phil > _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
