On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 10:41 -0500, Wendy Cheng wrote: > DRand@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > ......The disk was previously a GFS disk and we reformatted it with > > exactly the same mkfs command both times. Here are more details. We > > are running the cluster on a Netapp SAN device. > > Netapp SAN device has embedded snapshot features (and it has been the > main reason of choosing NetApp SAN devices for most of the customers). > It can restore your previous filesystem easily (just few commands away - > go to the console, do a "snap list", find your volume that hosts the lun > used for gfs, then do a "snap restore"). This gfs_edit approach (to > search thru the whole device block by block) is really a brute-force way > to do the restore. Unless you don't have "snap restore" license ? Wendy, We too are using a NetApp. There was talk amongst out IT group that these snaps would not work against a raw lun. Can you point me at any docs that describe how best to implement snaps against a gfs lun? Regards, -C -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
