fsck on disks fail

[Edgar_8]

Hi,

We have an XP256 array & we synchronized the BC vg's but when the BC vg's were in PAIRED status & we issued a split command, during the fsck phase the below error is prompted & the split fails:

Now we need to mount the new logical volumes on the BC mount points
log replay in progress
vxfs fsck: file system does not contain a valid log
vxfs fsck: cannot perform log replay
file system is not clean, full fsck required
full file system check required, exiting ...
vxfs mount: /dev/vg_name/lvol1 is corrupted. needs checking
ERROR: The command - mount /dev/vg_name/lvol1 /mount_pt failed.

Anyone have any ideas on resolution?

Thanks in advance.

[Stanimir]

Hi!
fsck by default is checking only
intent.log. You must try to start
fsck again using "-o full"-option
for full scanning the file system.
Regards,Stan

[Brian Watkins]

Edgar,

If you're using the -full option, be prepared to spend a lot time (depending on the size of the filesystem) hitting the "y" key to correct any inconsistencies fsck finds.

You may want to add the -y option as well (automatically answers "yes" to all prompts generated by fsck). A word of caution, though: answering "yes" to everything can result in some problems (directory and/or inode linking/relinking are the usual suspects that I've come across, but fsck places the suspect files/directories in lost+found for you).

Since these are BCVs, you can always re-synch them with the primaries and try again. That's the beauty of BCVs :)

Hope this helps,

Brian