From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id l6J2YPbm024530 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:34:27 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:34:19 +1000 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: XFS repair on / in a hosted environment Message-ID: <20070719023419.GC12413810@sgi.com> References: <469E690B.5070600@rupa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <469E690B.5070600@rupa.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Rupa Schomaker Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:24:59PM -0700, Rupa Schomaker wrote: > I have a virtual server hosted in a XEN environment. Kernel is > 2.6.16.13-XenU and I can't change it. :( Host provider is not responsive > to getting us a newer kernel. > > Anyway, during my nightly rsync backup, I started seeing the following: ..... > > On boot, mount shows: > > /dev/sda1 on / type xfs (rw) > > # mount -o remount,ro / > > after the remount, mount still shows / as rw > > # mount > /dev/sda1 on / type xfs (rw) > what does /proc/mounts tell you (rather than /etc/mtab)? If /proc/mounts says ro, then try upgrading your xfsprogs package. and then retrying the repair.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group