[Linux-cluster] GFS - lost filespace during gfs_grow
Klaus Steinberger
Klaus.Steinberger at physik.uni-muenchen.de
Fri Jun 2 05:54:28 UTC 2006
Hello,
I have the following problem:
I tried to expand a GFS filesystem from 2 TByte to 3 TByte.
FIrst I expanded successfully the Logical Volume (sits on a FC storage)
Then I tried "gfs_grow -v /export/data/etp".
The last thing it wrote out:
Preparing to write new FS information
After that the load at least on one of the other nodes running the NFS Service
has gone up (80 - 130), I did not see any big activity on the storage, but
DLM lock events on the node running gfs_grow.
After some long time (around 20 Minutes) the node running gfs_grow crashed
with an OOPS ( please see the screenshot at
http://www.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~klaus.steinberger/crash-dlm.png ).
With df it looks like that only part of the new space was added:
[root at etpopt03 ~]# df /export/data/etp
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/etpdata-etp
2427166768 2105093784 322072984 87% /export/data/etp
[root at etpopt03 ~]#
Further gfs_grow commands tell:
[root at etpopt03 ~]# gfs_grow -Tv /export/data/etp
Device has grown by less than 100 blocks.... skipping
[root at etpopt03 ~]#
There are 8 journals with standard size (so at most 128 Mbyte should be used
for the journals), so it looks like around 500 - 600 MByte are missing.
I run Scientific Linux 4.2 (which is similar to RHEL 4.2)
How could I recover the lost space?
Sincerly,
Klaus
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