[Pvfs2-developers] EMERGENCY: Need help recovering one of our META/IO servers....

[Phil Carns]

Becky Ligon wrote:
> Phil:
> 
> When we run db_verify, it is telling us what we already knew, that a
> region of the database is corrupted. It give us a page number, but don't
> think that will do us any good.  db_recover seems to stop when it reaches
> the bad page.
> 
> Michael and I are thinking that we can run db_dump and db_load (after
> recompiling db_load with the pvfs2 comparator).  Then, use pvfs2-fsck to
> recover whatever we can.  What do you think about that approach?
> 
> Becky

That seems reasonable to me.  I've never encountered a db file that was 
that corrupted, so I don't really know what to suggest.

-Phil