[Linux-cluster] cannot fsck on our 16 TB gfs2 volume...

[gordan at bobich.net]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, PeP wrote:

> We have created a 16 TB GFS2 cluster lvm on our iSCSI SAN using following 
> commands :
> - mkfs.gfs2 -p lock_dlm -r 2048 -J 16 -t ftpcluster:ftpdata /dev/ftpdata/ftp
>
> When running a fsck command on it we obtain following :
>
> hydra11 openais # fsck.gfs2 -v /dev/ftpdata/ftp
> Initializing fsck
> Initializing lists...
> Initializing special inodes...
> Validating Resource Group index.
> Level 1 RG check.
> (level 1 passed)
> 8001 resource groups found.
> Setting block ranges...
> This system doesn't have enough memory + swap space to fsck this file system.
> Additional memory needed is approximately: 6000MB
> Please increase your swap space by that amount and run gfs_fsck again.
> Freeing buffers.
> hydra11 openais #
>
> This looks weird for us.
>
> Our current config is :
>
> - Dual Core Intel Xeon + 4 GB RAM + 200 GB swap
> - Gentoo Linux 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 (GFS2 kernel module)
> - redhat-cluster-suite-2.01.00
>
> Can you help us diagnose what's wrong with our setup ?

Other than using Gentoo? ;-)

Have you tried with GFS1 rather than GFS2?

Gordan