From: Andrew S. <an...@ne...> - 2005-11-30 13:10:05
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Andrew Shugg said: > The setup is bbr on both spindles, a container encapsulating both of > these, and then LVM2 regions on top, striping across both spindles. (I > decided to stripe with LVM2 rather than RAID - does anyone have any > comments on this choice of action?) > > The problem that I am seeing now is that my xfs volumes keep corrupting. > Some of the LVs are ext3 and they've been fine, but when I reboot after > a heavy day's rsyncing from the old data store, one or more of the xfs > volumes won't mount. They complain with: > > Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: device_mapper(x,y) ... > XFS: xlog_recover_process_data: bad clientid > XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5 > XFS: log mount failed > > Running 'xfs_check' on the volume informs me that the metadata log is > corrupted and I need to run 'xfs_repair -L' to zero the log. I do this > and then the filesystem will usually mount okay. Hi folks, Anybody got any thoughts on this? Is striping with LVM2 not a good idea? Should I start again with RAID0 and then put LVM2 on top? Andrew. -- Andrew Shugg <an...@ne...> http://www.neep.com.au/ "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh." |