On Friday, April 18, 2014 12:13:14 PM UTC-5, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > Randy Black <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes: > > I am using s3ql on a vagrant vm (VirtualBox) CentOS 6.5 attaching to a > > swift cluster using keystone authentication. The vm did not unmount > > clean. > > What does that mean? How can you mount (or unmount) a vm (virtual > machine)? > > Unmount the drive clean. Vagrant manages your virtual machine, it's a light weight way to make and reproduce vm's for testing. It is still a Virtualbox vm or vmware if you choose to go with that hypervisor. Either way, what my brain said was unmount the dirve, what my fingers said was unmount,with no specification.
> > > I ran a fsck.s3ql on the storage url and it get; > > > >> Backend reports that file system is still mounted elsewhere. Either > >> the file system has not been unmounted cleanly or the data has not yet > >> propagated through the backend. In the later case, waiting for a while > >> should fix the problem, in the former case you should try to run fsck > >> on the computer where the file system has been mounted most recently. > >> Enter "continue" to use the outdated data anyway: > > This sounds as if the virtual machine running mount.s3ql crashed, and > you then ran ran fsck.s3ql on a different system or a new vm. Is that > correct? > > Then this is expected behavior, you need to run fsck.s3ql on the same vm > where you last mounted the file system. This is where the data is. > it was the same vm, power cycles (crash) and fsck.s3ql reported back the same message on multiple attempts. No big deal, just trying to understand the process. > > > > I deleted the metadata out of the swift container > > Do you mean you manually deleted objects in the swift container? Why did > you do that? This is a recipe for desaster. > Agree, thats why I am using it in a test env now so I can understand and avoid those issues in a prod/dev environment. Thanks Nikolaus > > > Best, > -Nikolaus > > -- > GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F > Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F > > »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "s3ql" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
