[Linux-cluster] The file on a GFS2-filesystem seems to be corrupted
Vladimir Melnik
v.melnik at uplink.ua
Mon Dec 15 09:17:32 UTC 2014
And one more question,
Is it safe to remove this file? What will happen if I try to run 'rm
/mnt/sp1/ac2cb28f-09ac-4ca0-bde1-471e0c7276a0.bak', won't it corrupt
other files?
Thanks.
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 06:04:48PM +0200, Vladimir Melnik wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I encountered some very strange issue and would be grateful if you share
> your thoughts on that.
>
> I have a qcow2-image that is located at gfs2 filesystem on a cluster.
> The cluster works fine and there are dozens of other qcow2-images, but,
> as I can see, one of images seems to be corrupted.
>
> First of all, it has quite unusual size:
> > stat /mnt/sp1/ac2cb28f-09ac-4ca0-bde1-471e0c7276a0.bak
> File: `/mnt/sp1/ac2cb28f-09ac-4ca0-bde1-471e0c7276a0.bak'
> Size: 7493992262336241664 Blocks: 821710640 IO Block: 4096 regular file
> Device: fd06h/64774d Inode: 220986752 Links: 1
> Access: (0744/-rwxr--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
> Access: 2014-10-09 16:25:24.864877839 +0300
> Modify: 2014-12-13 14:41:29.335603509 +0200
> Change: 2014-12-13 15:52:35.986888549 +0200
>
> By the way, I noticed that blocks' number looks rather okay.
>
> Also qemu-img can't recognize it as an image:
> > qemu-img info /mnt/sp1/ac2cb28f-09ac-4ca0-bde1-471e0c7276a0.bak
> image: /mnt/sp1/ac2cb28f-09ac-4ca0-bde1-471e0c7276a0.bak
> file format: raw
> virtual size: 6815746T (7493992262336241664 bytes)
> disk size: 392G
>
> Disk size, although, looks more reasonable: the image's size is really
> should be about 300-400G, as I remember.
>
> Alas, I can't do anything with this image. I can't check it by qemu-img,
> neither I can convert it to the new image, as qemu-img can't do anything
> with it:
>
> > qemu-img convert -p -f qcow2 -O qcow2 /mnt/sp1/ac2cb28f-09ac-4ca0-bde1-471e0c7276a0.bak /mnt/tmp/ac2cb28f-09ac-4ca0-bde1-471e0c7276a0
> Could not open '/mnt/sp1/ac2cb28f-09ac-4ca0-bde1-471e0c7276a0.bak': Invalid argument
> Could not open '/mnt/sp1/ac2cb28f-09ac-4ca0-bde1-471e0c7276a0.bak'
>
> Any one have experienced the same issue? What do you think, is it qcow2
> issue or a gfs2 issue? What would you do in similar situation?
>
> Any ideas, hints and comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Yes, I have snapshots, that's good, but wouldn't like to lose today's
> changes to the data on that image. And I'm worried about the filesystem
> at all: what if something goes wrong if I try to remove that file?
>
> Thanks to all!
>
>
> --
> V.Melnik
>
> P.S. I use CentOS-6 and I have these packages installed:
> qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.4.x86_64
> gfs2-utils-3.0.12.1-59.el6_5.1.x86_64
> lvm2-cluster-2.02.100-8.el6.x86_64
> cman-3.0.12.1-59.el6_5.1.x86_64
> clusterlib-3.0.12.1-59.el6_5.1.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64
>
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