From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rosario Turrisi Subject: Re: action "debugfs-like" through nfs? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:15:24 +0200 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3F1EA68C.7020700@pd.infn.it> References: <3F1E892B.8020508@pd.infn.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040700060608080704040600" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from is01.lnl.infn.it ([192.135.30.245]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19fLL2-00020H-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:15:32 -0700 To: Trond Myklebust In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040700060608080704040600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ... because raidtec does not give the password to customers... I am afraid, and you confirm, that the only choice is their intervention... Thanks, Rosario Trond Myklebust wrote: >>>>>>" " == Rosario Turrisi writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> > > > Hi, I have a fileserver from Raidtec which uses ext2 > > filesystems. Due to a double (!!!) disk failure, I had the > > strange behaviour that a directory is seen as a whole file, > > with strange attributes, like "?r--r-sr-T" and changed > > owner/group. I believe that an operation like "debugfs" could > > fix the problem, but it cannot be done (it seems) on an > > nfs-mounted filesystem (I cannot enter the fileserver system as > > it is "raidtec-copyrighted"). Any suggestion very very > > welcome. Cheers, > >Errr... Why is fixing it on the server itself (where "debugfs" is more >likely to work) not an option? > >The NFS protocol has no support for doing low-level disk ioctls on the >server so you can forget doing this sort of thing on the client. > >Cheers, > Trond > > > > > --------------040700060608080704040600 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ... because raidtec does not give the password to customers...
I am afraid, and you confirm, that the only choice is their  intervention...
Thanks,
         Rosario

Trond Myklebust wrote:
" " == Rosario Turrisi <turrisi@pd.infn.it> writes:
            

     > Hi, I have a fileserver from Raidtec which uses ext2
     > filesystems.  Due to a double (!!!) disk failure, I had the
     > strange behaviour that a directory is seen as a whole file,
     > with strange attributes, like "?r--r-sr-T" and changed
     > owner/group.  I believe that an operation like "debugfs" could
     > fix the problem, but it cannot be done (it seems) on an
     > nfs-mounted filesystem (I cannot enter the fileserver system as
     > it is "raidtec-copyrighted").  Any suggestion very very
     > welcome.  Cheers,

Errr... Why is fixing it on the server itself (where "debugfs" is more
likely to work) not an option?

The NFS protocol has no support for doing low-level disk ioctls on the
server so you can forget doing this sort of thing on the client.

Cheers,
  Trond
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