[Linux-cluster] 'df' not accurate?

David Teigland teigland at redhat.com
Mon Nov 22 09:16:04 UTC 2004


On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:24:42PM -0600, Ken Preslan wrote:
> GFS caches the information used to perform a "df" in little chunks of
> cluster memory (called LVBs) associated with each bitmap lock.  The data
> probably got corrupted somehow.  The "gfs_tool reclaim" caused the
> data to be reinitialzed from disk.  ("Gfs_tool shrink" should have done
> that too.  I'm not sure why it didn't.)
> 
> Maybe there's a bug in the lock_dlm LVB recovery code or a bug has crept
> into the filesystem code.

There was a bug updating lvb's in the dlm.  The problem should now be
fixed.

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Dave Teigland  <teigland at redhat.com>




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