Converting from GFS1 to GFS2 causes fsck errors

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Issue

While testing conversion from GFS1 to GFS2 on lab systems we found that the filesystems are being corrupted during the conversion with the tool gfs2_convert.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)

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