On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 10:09, Sarwer Zafiruddin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was curious about somthing. I have a system running the RedHat
> distribution of XFS 1.1 on a system. When I upgraded the RPM's and the
> redhat kernel (I recompiled the kernel using the SGI XFS kernel SRPM on my
> system) and rebooted the system, I noticed the following messages in my
> dmesg log (I rebooted the system remotely):
>
> XFS mounting filesystem ide0(3,2)
> XFS: WARNING: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
> XFS: write access will be enabled during mount.
> Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: ide0(3,2) (dev: 3/2)
> Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: ide0(3,2) (dev: 3/2)
> VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly.
>
> None of my other filesystems performed a recovery
>
> XFS mounting filesystem ide0(3,1)
> XFS mounting filesystem ide0(3,10)
> XFS mounting filesystem ide0(3,7)
> XFS mounting filesystem ide0(3,8)
> XFS mounting filesystem ide0(3,3)
> XFS mounting filesystem ide0(3,9)
>
> I was runing the SGI XFS 1.0.2 (using installer) Redhat 7.2, and the
> system was up for more than 120 days before the reboot.
>
> QUESTION #1:
>
> What could have prompted the recovery??? Un-clean unmount during the
> reboot??? The fact the upgrade process requires a xfs recovery to be
> performed on the root fs??? Could it be similar to ext2 where if the fs
> has not been check in X amount of days it does a fsck equivlent???
Almost certainly the remount readonly in the shutdown path did not work,
there was a bug in this, possibly your old kernel was suffering from it,
or you had a version of the user space init scripts which limited the
remount readonly to ext2 filesystems, although I thought that was 7.1
and earlier user space.
Try another reboot with the current kernel and see if it comes up clean.
>
> QUESTION #2:
>
> Should I bring my system down to maintaince, boot off CD and run
> xfs_repair on my root filesystem to make sure everything is consistant?
>
Probably not needed.
Steve
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