[LU-14126] parallel e2fsck does not work well with MMP

Related — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 03:51:38 +0000

Running parallel e2fsck 1.45.6.wc2 with -fy -m 256 on a filesystem with a lot of (otherwise trivial) errors that need to be fixed caused e2fsck to abort because of concurrent MMP block updates:

[Thread 240] Inode 495454238 symlink missing NUL terminator.  [Thread 240] Fix? yes
 
MMP check failed: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: the filesystem is being modified while fsck is running.
MMP_block:
    mmp_magic: 0x4d4d50
    mmp_check_interval: 5
    mmp_sequence: e24d4d50
    mmp_update_date: Thu Nov  5 18:46:29 2020
    mmp_update_time: 1604630789
    mmp_node_name: mdt04
    mmp_device_name: /dev/vg_mdt0003/mdt0003
MMP check failed: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: the filesystem is being modified while fsck is running.
MMP_block:
    mmp_magic: 0x4d4d50
    mmp_check_interval: 5
    mmp_sequence: e24d4d50
    mmp_update_date: Thu Nov  5 18:46:29 2020
    mmp_update_time: 1604630789
    mmp_node_name: mdt04
    mmp_device_name: /dev/vg_mdt0003/mdt0003
MMP check failed: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: the filesystem is being modified while fsck is running.
MMP_block:
    mmp_magic: 0x4d4d50
    mmp_check_interval: 5
    mmp_sequence: e24d4d50
    mmp_update_date: Thu Nov  5 18:46:29 2020
    mmp_update_time: 1604630789
    mmp_node_name: mdt04
    mmp_device_name: /dev/vg_mdt0003/mdt0003
[Thread 63] 
scratch-MDT0003: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
[Thread 96] 
scratch-MDT0003: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
[Thread 76] 
scratch-MDT0003: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

Running with "-fn -m 256" worked without problems for a long time before we gave up (with hundreds of the "symlink missing NUL terminator" errors, which was fixed in ~~LU-1540~~, included in Lustre 2.1.3, 2.4.0, and e2fsprogs-1.42.3.wc3).

It is likely that the large number of inodes to be fixed caused two threads to update the MMP block at the same time, or they checked that the MMP block had not been modified and raced with another thread that updated it. The patch https://review.whamcloud.com/39874 "LU-8465 e2fsck: update mmp block in one thread" should already be included in the 1.45.6.wc2 release.

Whamcloud Community JIRA

[LU-14126] parallel e2fsck does not work well with MMP