[Linux-cluster] Problems with gfs_grow

[Mikko Partio]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Bob Peterson <rpeterso at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Mikko,
>
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 09:04 +0300, Mikko Partio wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I tried to expand my gfs filesystem from 1,5TB to 2TB. I added the new
> > 500G disk to volume manager etc, and finally run gfs_grow. The command
> > finished without warnings, but a few seconds after that my cluster
> > crashed with "Kernel Panic - not syncing. Fatal exception". When I got
> > the cluster up again and executed gfs_fsck on the filesystem I get
> > this error:
> >
> > sh-3.1# gfs_fsck -v /dev/xxx-vg/xxx-lv
> > Initializing fsck
> > Initializing lists...
> > Initializing special inodes...
> > Validating Resource Group index.
> > Level 1 check.
> > 5167 resource groups found.
> > (passed)
> > Setting block ranges...
> > Can't seek to last block in file system: 4738147774
> > Unable to determine the boundaries of the file system.
> > Freeing buffers.
>
> You've probably hit the gfs_grow bug described in bz #434962 (436383)
> and the gfs_fsck bug described in 440897 (440896).  My apologies if
> you can't read them; permissions to individual bugzilla records are
> out of my control.  It's not guaranteed to be your problem, but it
> sounds similar.
>
> The fixes are available in the recently released RHEL5.2, although
> I don't know when they'll hit Centos.  The fixes are also available
> in the latest cluster git tree if you want to compile/install them
> from source code yourself.  Documentation for doing this can
> be found at: http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/ClusterGit
>


Hi Bob and thanks for you reply.

So, what I should do is to upgrade to 5.2 and then run gfs_fsck on the
filesystem?

Regards

Mikko
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