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OCFS2 file system mounted as read-only

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Ray

I have a problem with an Oracle Cluster Filesystem (ocfs2) attached to a cluster of Ubuntu 20.04 servers. The file system keeps getting mounted as read-only. Unfortunately, I know the cause since the system was rebooted in the middle of a file copy. I'm not surprised there are issues with some of the files but I would even be happy to delete all of these files and re-copy, but the file system keeps getting mounted as read-only.

So far, I've disconnected all servers from this file system. Then, I ran fsck.ocfs2 from one server as follows: sudo time fsck.ocfs2 -P -t -t -f (filesystem). Everything was fine, except this part:

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Pass 1: Checking inodes and blocks
[Scanning inodes 100%]                                                          
  I/O read disk/cache: 1000MB / 392MB, write: 0MB, rate: 2.10MB/s
  Times real: 11m57.073s, user: 4m1.084s, sys: 0m1.030s
Pass 2: Checking directory entries                                              
pass2: Bad magic number in directory block while reading dir block 1439634968   
pass2: Bad magic number in directory block while reading dir block 1439634969
pass2: Bad magic number in directory block while reading dir block 1439634970
  I/O read disk/cache: 16MB / 2239MB, write: 0MB, rate: 1.48MB/s
  Times real: 0m11.971s, user: 0m1.156s, sys: 0m0.041s
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity                                         
[DIR_DOTDOT] Directory inode 4273782381 is referenced by a dirent in directory  ​4273782380 but its '..' entry points to inode 0. Fix the '..' entry to reference 4273782380? <y> y
 ​fix_dot_dot: Bad magic number in directory block while iterating through dir inode 4273782380's directory entries.
 ​I/O read disk/cache: 0MB / 1MB, write: 0MB, rate: 0.00MB/s
 ...
 All passes succeeded

Seems I have two separate errors during Pass 2 and Pass 3.

I can repeat this command many times, but the messages do not change. I guess the file system isn't being repaired.

When I mount it, it is mounted as read-write. However, once I do something in the directory with the problem, it switches to read-only.

I used debugfs.ocfs2 to find out what is there (i.e., findpath <4273782381>) and I can confirm I do not need what's there. I can delete it if I could.

Many of the questions asked by others seem to imply that fsck (i.e., even the version for ext4) will repair things automatically if ran multiple times. I'm happy to do something manually to help fsck.ocfs2 along but I don't know what I can do...

Any help would be appreciated! Even suggestions specific for ext4 will help me so that I can search on-line for what equivalent commands I could use for ocfs2.

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