Re: [Moosefs-users] moosefs losing chunks

[Chris P. <ch...@ec...>]

On 2011/12/22 5:47 PM, Elliot Finley wrote:
> I went through the EXACT same scenario. All VM images had one missing 
> block. I did a mfsfilerepair on all of them. They all made it through 
> a fsck with flying colors. They all started and ran. Over a month 
> later, when the OS (FreeBSD) actually tried to access that block, 
> things went berserk. Long story short, I ended up recovering that VM 
> from backups.

Hi Elliot

Thanks for the info

I have just taken one of my vms which is not too important (and had 3 
lost blocks before I ran mfsfilerepair), and filled up its partitions by 
dd'ing to temp files.

So far I have seen no problems on that machine, but I will keep an eye 
on all of them.

Regards

Chris