From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8b393b511ac5172c4a936b40527db05f@plan9.bell-labs.com> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:27:27 -0500 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil failure question In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1f2d1c14-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 that looks like you are either not reading or writing the data correctly (once you initialise the fossil the labels should all be 0 i think). perhaps there's interference in the driver between discs, e.g. we don't have locking right or have some piece of state which is shared between the drives when it shouldn't be. also, check the disc size, etc. is right. --jim On Thu Mar 3 14:20:53 EST 2005, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote: > > This is on Xen; I'm willing to blame xen, but many other things are > working. I'm trying to do the kfs->fossil transition. I have /dev/sd00/fs > and /dev/sd01/fossil, fossil mounted as /n/fossil, kfs as /n/kfs. > > I'm doing the mkfs|mkext s dance as found on the wiki. > > disk/mkfs -a -s /n/kfs /sys/lib/sysconfig/proto/allproto | > disk/mkext -u -d /n/fossil > > At some point in fossil console I get 300 or these: > main: labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > labelUnpack ff ff 6ccd6c27 01000000 0001ffff > . > . > . > . > > > Is this an error (I'm guessing yes) > What's it mean? > What's a good place to start digging to see what's going on? > > thanks > > ron