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SubjectRe: can't recover ext4 on lvm from ext4_mb_generate_buddy:739: group 1687, 32254 clusters in bitmap, 32258 in gd
Hello Ted,

Thursday, January 5, 2012, 7:15:35 PM, you wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 05:14:28PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>>
>> OK spoke too soon, i have been able to trigger it again:
>> - copying files from LV to the same LV without the snapshot went OK
>> - copying from the RO snapshot of a LV to the same LV gave the error while copying the file again:

> OK. Originally, you said you did this:

> 1) fsck -v -p -f the filesystem
> 2) mount the filesystem
> 3) Try to copy a file
> 4) filesystem will be mounted RO on error (see below)
> 5) fsck again, journal will be recovered, no other errors
> 6) start at 1)

> Was this with with a read-only snapshot always being in existence
> through all of these five steps? When was the RO snapshot created?

> If a RO snapshot has to be there in order for this to happen, then
> this is almost certainly a device-mapper regression. (dm-devel folks,
> this is a problem which apparently occurred when the user went from
> v3.1.5 to v3.2, so this looks likes 3.2 regression.)

> - Ted


OK Xen is out of the equation, it also happens on baremetal.
Last time under both Xen and baremetal i got a slightly different error (different numbers (group)

[ 823.782633] EXT4-fs error (device dm-2): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:739: group 1865, 32254 clusters in bitmap, 32258 in gd
[ 823.788129] Aborting journal on device dm-2-8.
[ 823.852443] EXT4-fs (dm-2): Remounting filesystem read-only
[ 823.857956] EXT4-fs error (device dm-2) in ext4_da_write_end:2532: IO failure
[ 823.858646] EXT4-fs (dm-2): ext4_da_writepages: jbd2_start: 12288 pages, ino 4079617; err -30



>>
>> [ 2357.655783] EXT4-fs error (device dm-2): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:739: group 1861, 32254 clusters in bitmap, 32258 in gd
>> [ 2357.656056] Aborting journal on device dm-2-8.
>> [ 2357.718473] EXT4-fs (dm-2): Remounting filesystem read-only
>> [ 2357.736680] EXT4-fs error (device dm-2) in ext4_da_write_end:2532: IO failure
>> [ 2357.738328] EXT4-fs (dm-2): ext4_da_writepages: jbd2_start: 7615 pages, ino 4079617; err -30
>> [ 2716.125010] EXT4-fs error (device dm-2): ext4_put_super:818: Couldn't clean up the journal
>>
>>
>> Attached are 4x output from dumpe2fs
>> - dumpe2fs-xen_images-3.2.0 Made just after boot
>> - dumpe2fs-xen_images-3.2.0-afterfsck Made after doing a fsck -v -p -f on the unmounted LV
>> - dumpe2fs-xen_images-3.2.0-aftererror Made after the error occured on the mounted LV
>> - dumpe2fs-xen_images-3.2.0-aftererror-afterfsck Made after the error occured, and after a subsequent fsck -v -p -f on the unmounted LV
>> - dumpe2fs-xen_images-3.1.5 Made after booting into 3.1.5 after all of the above
>>
>> Oh yes also did a badblock scan to rule that out, and it seems the numbers stay the same.
>> e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) (from debian squeeze)
>>
>> --
>> Sander
>>
>>
>>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Sander
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> This is a forwarded message
>> >> From: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
>> >> To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
>> >> Date: Thursday, January 5, 2012, 11:37:59 AM
>> >> Subject: can't recover ext4 on lvm from ext4_mb_generate_buddy:739: group 1687, 32254 clusters in bitmap, 32258 in gd
>> >>
>> >> ===8<==============Original message text===============
>> >>
>> >> I'm having some troubles with a ext4 filesystem on LVM, it seems bricked and fsck doesn't seem to find and correct the problem.
>> >>
>> >> Steps:
>> >> 1) fsck -v -p -f the filesystem
>> >> 2) mount the filesystem
>> >> 3) Try to copy a file
>> >> 4) filesystem will be mounted RO on error (see below)
>> >> 5) fsck again, journal will be recovered, no other errors
>> >> 6) start at 1)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I think the way i bricked it is:
>> >> - make a lvm snapshot from that lvm logical disk
>> >> - mount that lvm snapshot as RO
>> >> - try to copy a file from that mounted RO snapshot to a diffrent dir on the lvm logical disk the snapshot is from.
>> >> - it fails and i can't recover (see above)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Is there a way to recover from this ?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> [ 220.748928] EXT4-fs error (device dm-2): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:739: group 1687, 32254 clusters in bitmap, 32258 in gd
>> >> [ 220.749415] Aborting journal on device dm-2-8.
>> >> [ 220.771633] EXT4-fs error (device dm-2): ext4_journal_start_sb:327: Detected aborted journal
>> >> [ 220.772593] EXT4-fs (dm-2): Remounting filesystem read-only
>> >> [ 220.792455] EXT4-fs (dm-2): Remounting filesystem read-only
>> >> [ 220.805118] EXT4-fs (dm-2): ext4_da_writepages: jbd2_start: 9680 pages, ino 4079617; err -30
>> >> serveerstertje:/mnt/xen_images/domains/production# cd /
>> >> serveerstertje:/# umount /mnt/xen_images/
>> >> serveerstertje:/# fsck -f -v -p /dev/serveerstertje/xen_images
>> >> fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
>> >> /dev/mapper/serveerstertje-xen_images: recovering journal
>> >>
>> >> 277 inodes used (0.00%)
>> >> 5 non-contiguous files (1.8%)
>> >> 0 non-contiguous directories (0.0%)
>> >> # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 41/41/3
>> >> Extent depth histogram: 69/28/2
>> >> 51890920 blocks used (79.18%)
>> >> 0 bad blocks
>> >> 41 large files
>> >>
>> >> 199 regular files
>> >> 53 directories
>> >> 0 character device files
>> >> 0 block device files
>> >> 0 fifos
>> >> 0 links
>> >> 16 symbolic links (16 fast symbolic links)
>> >> 0 sockets
>> >> --------
>> >> 268 files
>> >> serveerstertje:/#
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> System:
>> >> - Kernel 3.2.0
>> >> - Debian Squeeze with:
>> >> ii e2fslibs 1.41.12-4stable1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system libraries
>> >> ii e2fsprogs 1.41.12-4stable1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities
>> >>
>> >> ===8<===========End of original message text===========
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Best regards,
>> >> Sander mailto:linux@eikelenboom.it<Message01.eml>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Sander mailto:linux@eikelenboom.it









--
Best regards,
Sander mailto:linux@eikelenboom.it



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