I rebooted the system and this time it came up without any recovery
required. Come to think of it, the reboot I did after the 1.1 upgrade was
the first reboot of the system since I installed it from the installer.
:-)
Thanks,
Sarwer
On 25 Apr 2002, Steve Lord wrote:
> 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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