On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:56 -0500, Steffen Plotner wrote: > My question would be, if Bob had done a gfs_fsck before attempting to > grow the gfs space, what would that have returned? Would that have > prevented the gfs_grow issue? > > Steffen Hi Steffen, I don't think gfs_fsck would have found any problems prior to the gfs_grow. The gfs_fsck can handle a gfs file system extended by gfs_grow. In fact, I put gfs_fsck through hell by doing different combinations of gfs_grows and forcing different kinds of corruption. In fact, to stress these different situations, I developed an elaborate test that does many different combinations of: 1. gfs_mkfs 2. gfs_grow 3. gfs_grow again sometimes 4. deliberately damage different parts of the RGs and/or rg index. 5. gfs_fsck to repair the damage The problem, I think, is that the gfs_grow failed and left things in a bad state. Regards, Bob Peterson Red Hat GFS -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
