[Lustre-discuss] OST crash recovery problem

[Heiko Schroeter]

Am Dienstag, 26. August 2008 15:20:01 schrieb Mag Gam:

I did respond to the list (and myself) of this unresolved issue and the rerack 
last week (19.8).
Unfortunatly i dont' have time to do more investigations because we moved on 
to our productive system and i had to get things going.
And _this_ bugs me.

So, i don't know about you but i do have my forms ready ...

Heiko

> LOL... I am in the same situation, I want to see what problems other
> people have so I can try to help them and I can further avoid it. I am
> a big proponent of "your problems are my problems" :-)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Heiko Schroeter
>
> <schroete at iup.physik.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> > Since the new setup everything is running fine. Why ?
> >
> > Except my backbone, which keeps on etching when something is not quite
> > figured out  ;-)
> >
> > When this sort of breakdown happens again i do have a blank undersigned
> > 'Blitz Holliday' form ready in my desk ....
> >
> > Seriously, i also would like to know what the cause (besides the power
> > loss) is and how to repair a lustre system in such a case.
> >
> > Heiko
> >
> >> Darn, We are curious what happened now.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Heiko Schroeter
> >>
> >> <schroete at iup.physik.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> >> > Am Montag, 25. August 2008 13:54:46 schrieb Johann Lombardi:
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, the system had to be setup from scratch as we couldn't find a
> >> > solution. This has already happen.
> >> >
> >> > The mounts were done manually.
> >> > Unfortunatly i did not memorize exactly the output of 'lctl dl'.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks anyway for your effort.
> >> >
> >> > Regards
> >> > Heiko
> >> >
> >> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:40:05AM +0200, Heiko Schroeter wrote:
> >> >> > What needs to be done in such a case ?
> >> >> > I tried to move the mountpoint because of the "file exists" message
> >> >> > but that does not help.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Aug 13 11:18:54 sadosrd20 LustreError:
> >> >> > 7247:0:(genops.c:246:class_newdev()) Device scia-OST0004 already
> >> >> > exists, won't add
> >> >> > Aug 13 11:18:54 sadosrd20 LustreError: 7247:0:
> >> >> > (obd_config.c:180:class_attach()) Cannot create device scia-OST0004
> >> >> > of type obdfilter : -17
> >> >>
> >> >> It seems that OST0004 is already up. Is this OST automatically
> >> >> mounted at boot time (via fstab)? Could you please run 'lctl dl'?
> >> >>
> >> >> Johann
> >> >
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