WAPBL and replaying log

["Sarton O'Brien" <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

On Friday 10 October 2008 14:00:30 Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> I've been using wabl for a while and so far have had a good experience.
>
> Today my xen server crashed and upon reboot all domu started fine except
> one which is sitting on 'replaying log to disk'.
>
> Whenever parity is being rewritten I expect some delays but the domu boot
> process seems to be hung. Attaching the image to a vnd and attempting fsck
> result in the same thing, it just sits on replaying log.
>
> Attempting to mount results in a process I cannot kill.
>
> Is it possible, due to the size of the image, that the replay may just take
> a while? From experience that doesn't seem right.
>
> It almost seems like I have some kind of corruption that wabl doesn't seem
> to be able to address.
>
> Any thoughts? Worst case, I'd like to be able to retrieve the data but at
> the moment I can't fsck or mount.
>
> Thanks for any help.

That was obviously meant to be WAPBL ...