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From: John Quigley <jquigley@jquigley.com>
To: XFS Development <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: XFS corruption with failover
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:17:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8474D2.7050508@jquigley.com> (raw)

Folks:

We're deploying XFS in a configuration where the file system is being exported with NFS.  XFS is being mounted on Linux, with default options; an iSCSI volume is the formatted media.  We're working out a failover solution for this deployment utilizing Linux HA.  Things appear to work correctly in the general case, but in continuous testing we're getting XFS superblock corruption on a very reproducible basis.  

The sequence of events in our test scenario:

1. NFS server #1 online
2. Run IO to NFS server #1 from NFS client
3. NFS server #1 offline, (via passing 'b' to /proc/sysrq-trigger)
4. NFS server #2 online
5. XFS mounted as part of failover mechanism, mount fails

The mount fails with the following:

<snip>
kernel: XFS mounting filesystem sde
kernel: Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sde (logdev: internal)
kernel: XFS: xlog_recover_process_data: bad clientid
kernel: XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5
kernel: XFS: log mount failed
</snip>

When running xfs_repair:

<snip>
[root@machine ~]# xfs_repair /dev/sde 
xfs_repair: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device /dev/sde: Invalid argument
Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
Phase 2 - using internal log
        - zero log...
ERROR: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log which needs ...
</snip>

Any advice or insight into what we're doing wrong would be very much appreciated.  My apologies in advance for the somewhat off-topic question.

- John Quigley

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-13 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-13 20:17 John Quigley [this message]
2009-08-13 21:17 ` XFS corruption with failover Emmanuel Florac
2009-08-13 22:42   ` Felix Blyakher
2009-08-14  0:52     ` John Quigley
2009-08-14  0:50   ` John Quigley
2009-08-13 21:44 ` Felix Blyakher
2009-08-14  0:31   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-14  0:58     ` Lachlan McIlroy
2009-08-14  1:35       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-14  1:44         ` John Quigley
2009-08-14  1:06     ` John Quigley
2009-08-14 13:21     ` Felix Blyakher
2009-08-14  0:56   ` John Quigley
     [not found] <424153067.1934481250210293891.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2009-08-14  0:38 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2009-08-14  1:14   ` John Quigley
2009-08-17 18:04   ` John Quigley
     [not found] <835473717.1935811250214078456.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2009-08-14  1:43 ` Lachlan McIlroy
     [not found] <990461759.2142271250648177725.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2009-08-19  2:18 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2009-08-19 15:46   ` John Quigley
     [not found] <1194138654.75921250838215929.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2009-08-21  7:11 ` Lachlan McIlroy

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