Re: WAPBL and replaying log

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

On Friday 10 October 2008 14:19:38 Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> 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 ...


Looking at iostat while running fsck, it appears that it may in-fact be doing 
something ... just very slowly.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Sarton