Resizing a gfs2 filesystem gfs2_grow hangs after printing "The file system grew by <size>MB" on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
- The gfs_grow command failed to complete when running the gfs2_grow command causing the filesystem to be come unavailable on all 4 nodes.
[root@node01 ~]# gfs2_grow /u04
FS: Mount Point: /u04
FS: Device: /dev/mapper/vgcluster1-u04vol
FS: Size: 52427775 (0x31ffbff)
FS: RG size: 65533 (0xfffd)
DEV: Size: 78641152 (0x4aff800)
The file system grew by 102396MB.
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Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (with Resilient Storage Add-on)
- Red Hat High Availability cluster with 2 or more nodes.
- GFS2 filesystems
- Extending the filesystem with gfs2_grow hangs and does not complete.
- Oracle database accessing files on GFS2 filesystem during gfs2_grow.
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