[Linux-cluster] Feature Request: gfs_fsck has a yes to all response.

[Shawn Hood]

`gfs_tool -y` is available in 6.1.18, which is what I'm running.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Stewart Walters <spods at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Sorry in advance, if I broke some etiquette rules of list cross posting!!
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> Posted to linux-cluster and cluster-devel only because I saw a previous email
> that did this also and it seemed to make sense, given the nature of the request.
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> Hi All,
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> I've just had a GFS volume massively corrupt itself.
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> Whenever the cluster tried to mount the GFS volume CPU utilisation went to 100%
> or greater (multi-core cluster nodes), and it would never mount.
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> So I've run gfs_fsck against the volume and sure enough it's found problems. It
> could be over 100,000 of them (a guestimate from the indicated output of gfs_fsck).
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> At this point the, being quite pragmatic, I'm of an understanding that
> the filesystem might be dead and I may need to recreate it.
>
> However I wanted to see if the filesystem was worth keeping even if the data on
> it was suspect.
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> During the gfs_fsck run I'm receiving the following messages:
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>   ondisk and fsck bitmaps differ at block 120968515
>   Fix bitmap for block 120968515? (y/n) y
>   Succeeded.
>   ondisk and fsck bitmaps differ at block 120968516
>   Fix bitmap for block 120968516? (y/n) y
>   Succeeded.
>   ondisk and fsck bitmaps differ at block 120968517
>   Fix bitmap for block 120968517? (y/n)
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> So you hit 'y' and hit 'Enter'.
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> Here's what happens if you just hit Enter though:
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>   ondisk and fsck bitmaps differ at block 120968518
>   Fix bitmap for block 120968518? (y/n)
>   Bad response, please type 'y' or 'n'.
>   Fix bitmap for block 18446744073709551615? (y/n)
>   Bad response, please type 'y' or 'n'.
>   Fix bitmap for block 47506943251024? (y/n)
>   Bad response, please type 'y' or 'n'.
>   Fix bitmap for block 254545062656? (y/n)
>   Bad response, please type 'y' or 'n'.
>   Fix bitmap for block 1? (y/n) y
>   Succeeded.
>   ondisk and fsck bitmaps differ at block 120968519
>   Fix bitmap for block 120968519? (y/n)
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> Apart from the fact that the 'Fix bitmap for block' number keeps changing, even
> though the the last two lines indicate that gfs_fsck was still talking about
> block 120968518 (because it proceeds on to block 120968519 immediately after you
> tell it 'yes') - there is no way to tell gfs_fsck to "Fix all".
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> Having to manually type 'y' and hit 'Enter' for each individual block is, quite
> frankly, annoying (not to mention a repetitive stress injury when 100,000
> potential blocks/200,000 key strokes are concerned!! :-)
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> Is there any way for the user to say "Yes to all"?
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> At least if the default choice was "Yes" when the Enter key was pressed, the user
> could hold down the Enter key until the entire list of blocks had been fixed.
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> Regards,
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> Stewart
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Shawn Hood