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Bug#599203: marked as done (os-prober: Causes Data Corruption on a SAN setup; Mounts SAN volumes that are already mounted on a different host.)

Your message dated Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:02:07 +0000
with message-id <E1PG9NP-00008j-0W@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#599203: fixed in os-prober 1.40
has caused the Debian Bug report #599203,
regarding os-prober: Causes Data Corruption on a SAN setup; Mounts SAN volumes that are already mounted on a different host.
to be marked as done.

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Package: os-prober
Version: 1.39
Severity: important


An upgrade (os-prober 1.35 -> 1.39) corrupted 3.3 TB of data on our SAN.

I was upgrading the host space1 and the data corruption occurred on space2. An install script of os-prober tried mounting as read-only a SAN volume which was already mounted on space2. That volume (on sapce2) was in production use so EXT3-fs (on space1) concluded that the journal was inconsistent, re-mounted as writable and performed a "recovery".

The mount on space2 became unavailable bringing the production host down. Re-mounting failed. After rebooting space2 fsck was required on the affected partition. It ran for many hours and found a huge number errors. Probably more than 10,000 errors. Then I was able to mount the volume and saw that our data was turned into gray goo: parts of system prel scripts were replaced by binary chunks, databases and web servers would not start. I had 30 containers in production. Some actually booted despite major sporadic data corruption in them.

My fellow system administrator from another department on campus said that their distribution (CentOS) does not run install scripts. As he worded it - Debian ended-up managing your SAN for you.

The reason why I got os-prober was the change in Debian's policy to install all recommended packages and os-prober was recommended by Grub. I am not sure why the data corruption did not happed when I upgraded to Squeeze a month ago (grub-common 1.96+20080724-16 -> 1.98-1).


I'm attaching the aptitiude log and syslog of space1.

The root of the problem is also described in bug #556739 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556739). The author predicts filesystem corruption and data loss back in 2009.

Alex


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.15+openvz-budarin (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages os-prober depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

os-prober recommends no packages.

os-prober suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Source: os-prober
Source-Version: 1.40

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
os-prober, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

os-prober-udeb_1.40_i386.udeb
  to main/o/os-prober/os-prober-udeb_1.40_i386.udeb
os-prober_1.40.dsc
  to main/o/os-prober/os-prober_1.40.dsc
os-prober_1.40.tar.gz
  to main/o/os-prober/os-prober_1.40.tar.gz
os-prober_1.40_i386.deb
  to main/o/os-prober/os-prober_1.40_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 599203@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated os-prober package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:51:19 +0000
Source: os-prober
Binary: os-prober-udeb os-prober
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.40
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description: 
 os-prober  - utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
 os-prober-udeb - utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives (udeb)
Closes: 417407 556739 567953 589676 592924 599203
Changes: 
 os-prober (1.40) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Christian Perrier ]
   * Fix Windows Vista and Windows Recovery Environment partitions
     recognition. (Thanks, Bouke Bunnik)
     Closes: #589676, LP: #476625
   * Allow recognition of recent MINIX installations.
     Thanks to Feiran Zheng
     Closes: #592924
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * Improve error message when /sys/block is missing.
   * os-prober doesn't know how to probe other OSes on non-Linux kernels.
     For now, just exit quietly rather than confusing people (closes:
     #567953).
   * Ignore active swap partitions (thanks, Alex Owen; see #417407).
   * Refactor linux_mount_boot to look up labels and UUIDs using blkid or
     /dev/disk/by-*/ rather than relying on mount being smart enough.  This
     removes some horrible code that executes mount from /target.
   * Set partitions read-only before mounting them (based on a patch by Alex
     Owen; closes: #417407, #556739, #599203).
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