What is a journal replay on a gfs2 filesystem?
Issue
Logs display Replaying journal messages similar to ones shown below.
Nov 9 21:41:27 node1 kernel: GFS2: fsid=prod:gfsprod01.0: jid=1: Looking at journal...
Nov 9 21:41:27 node1 kernel: GFS2: fsid=prod:gfsprod01.0: jid=1: Acquiring the transaction lock...
Nov 9 21:41:27 node1 kernel: GFS2: fsid=prod:gfsprod01.0: jid=1: Replaying journal...
Nov 9 21:41:27 node1 kernel: GFS2: fsid=prod:gfsprod01.0: jid=1: Replayed 364 of 365 blocks
Nov 9 21:41:27 node1 kernel: GFS2: fsid=prod:gfsprod01.0: jid=1: Found 1 revoke tags
Nov 9 21:41:27 node1 kernel: GFS2: fsid=prod:gfsprod01.0: jid=1: Journal replayed in 1s
Nov 9 21:41:27 node1 kernel: GFS2: fsid=prod:gfsprod01.0: jid=1: Done
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (with the High Availability Add Ons)
- A Global Filesystem 2(
GFS2)
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