[Linux-cluster] GFS Problem: invalid metadata block

[S. Wendy Cheng]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 06:38 -0700, Matt Eagleson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been evaluating a GFS cluster as an NFS solution and have unfortunately run in to a serious problem which I cannot explain.  Both of the GFS filesystems I am exporting became corrupt and unusable.
> 
> The system is Redhat AS4 with 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp.  I cannot find anything unusual on the host or the SAN at the time of this error.  Nobody was logged in to the nodes.
> 
> Can anyone help me understand what is happening here?
> 

By the time this check was hit, the filesystem had been corrupted. Do
you have a way to recreate this issue ? What is the SAN (storage) you
use ? Any third party kernel modules in the system ?

-- Wendy