cluster: STABLE3 - mount failure after gfs2_edit restoremeta of GFS file system

Bob Peterson rpeterso@fedoraproject.org
Wed May 20 16:53:00 GMT 2009


Gitweb:        http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cluster.git?p=cluster.git;a=commitdiff;h=5092894db39cb3e323648185bcb496f04c9e1938
Commit:        5092894db39cb3e323648185bcb496f04c9e1938
Parent:        62b8e821509c36b6b35777a0f3c1a459ac084766
Author:        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
AuthorDate:    Wed May 20 11:08:19 2009 -0500
Committer:     Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
CommitterDate: Wed May 20 11:08:19 2009 -0500

mount failure after gfs2_edit restoremeta of GFS file system

bz 501732

This patch fixes a problem with gfs2_edit savemeta.  The problem
was that when saving gfs (gfs1) journals, not enough data was
being saved, due to a redundant copy of the log header data that
gfs copies into the journal at an offset just short of 512 bytes.
Therefore, we need to save 512 bytes of gfs log headers or else
gfs won't be able to mount it.
---
 gfs2/edit/savemeta.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gfs2/edit/savemeta.c b/gfs2/edit/savemeta.c
index 4a36652..5b72547 100644
--- a/gfs2/edit/savemeta.c
+++ b/gfs2/edit/savemeta.c
@@ -92,7 +92,13 @@ static int get_gfs_struct_info(char *gbuf, int *block_type, int *gstruct_len)
 			*gstruct_len = sizeof(struct gfs2_meta_header);
 		break;
 	case GFS2_METATYPE_LH:   /* 8 (log header) */
-		*gstruct_len = sizeof(struct gfs2_log_header);
+		if (gfs1)
+			*gstruct_len = 512; /* gfs copies the log header
+					       twice and compares the copy,
+					       so we need to save all 512
+					       bytes of it. */
+		else
+			*gstruct_len = sizeof(struct gfs2_log_header);
 		break;
 	case GFS2_METATYPE_LD:   /* 9 (log descriptor) */
 		*gstruct_len = sbd.bsize;



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