Hi, On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 09:00 -0800, Dave Costakos wrote: > I'm using the kernel from RHEL 5.2 release. > > $ uname -rm > 2.6.18-92.el5xen x86_64 > Well that is quite old, but even so I'm surprised that you had a problem like that. What kind of messages did fsck spit out? I can't really debug this without any information on what is going wrong, Steve. > I got no syslog messages, but when I ran gfs_fsck, it complained quite > a bit. I presume it destroyed my files. Sadly, I don't have too much > time to reproduce the error since I need to restore 30 virtual > machines from backup. Luckily, it's just our lab environment. > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Steven Whitehouse > <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > You don't say what kernel version you are using. I'd suspect > that maybe > its too old. Do you get any messages in syslog at all? > > Steve. > > > On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 19:53 -0800, Dave Costakos wrote: > > > > I just converted a shared file-backed Xen VM GFS filesystem > to a GFS2 > > filesystem. The conversion was successfully and all my > files appear > > intact. I followed the GFS instructions by unmounting the > filesystem > > on all machines, running gfs_fsck, and gfs2_covert. > > > > Since I converted the filesystem, all my file-backed Xen VMs > can no > > longer boot. pygrub reports errors that the boot loader > isn't > > returning any data. If I edit the Xen config to boot of a > kernel on > > the DomU, VMs still can't start up because LVM cannot > identify any > > volume groups. > > > > If I try to access the VM device files locally via losetup > and kpartx, > > I get "read errors". > > > > So what's the deal I know GFS2 is a preview, but I have to > assume > > I've missed some crucial step here. > > > > -- > > Dave Costakos > > mailto:david.costakos@xxxxxxxxx > > > -- > > Linux-cluster mailing list > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > > > > -- > Dave Costakos > mailto:david.costakos@xxxxxxxxx > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
