Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Edward M eam1edw...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/10/2012 03:45 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: Regarding Nemeth's I am undecided between the 4th (Unix  Linux) or the 3rd. Please advise.    i purchased the third edition because I took a look  in the 4th the table of

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2012 09:30:37 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: For your recommendation above, what are the advantages or differences of slicing

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:29:05PM -0700, Edward M wrote: On 05/10/2012 03:45 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: Regarding Nemeth's I am undecided between the 4th (Unix Linux) or the 3rd. Please advise. i purchased the third edition because I took a look in the 4th the table of contents

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Edward M
On 05/11/2012 10:47 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: Is there something else I should try to find in the index or table of contents that would be in the third edition but not the fourth? Can you give me some examples of the sorts of things you'd expect to find in the table of contents that is lacking in

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Edward M
On 05/11/2012 12:11 PM, Edward M wrote: So far I think I found a few that may make a difference. According to the table of contents in the 4th edition in the chapter called Booting and shuting down it only shows entries for: red hat, HP-UX, AIX, SUSE,Ubuntu. However in the third

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:11:48PM -0700, Edward M wrote: So far I think I found a few that may make a difference. According to the table of contents in the 4th edition in the chapter called Booting and shuting down it only shows entries for: red hat, HP-UX, AIX, SUSE,Ubuntu. However

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Edward M
On 05/11/2012 05:18 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I appreciate the time you put into this. It was no problem at all:-) had fun comparing. Now that I'm free and have more time I went over the 3rd edition table of contents and found a few instances that mentions FreeBSD. In chapter Adding

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-10 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: [...] Reading _both_ of McKusick's  Design of .. books, and the 'Unix System Admininstration Handbook', by Nemeth, et al.  is a good _start_. I just bought the FreeBSD one only unless there is a reason I should

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-10 Thread Edward M
On 05/10/2012 03:45 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: Regarding Nemeth's I am undecided between the 4th (Unix Linux) or the 3rd. Please advise. i purchased the third edition because I took a look in the 4th the table of contents and it appears anything FreeBSD related was remove and

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: [...] One comment: for 'defensive' purposes it would be useful to break ad6 up into two slices, putting 'basejail' in it's own slice.  Then,

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 09 May 2012 18:57:06 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: [...] One comment: for 'defensive' purposes it would be useful to break

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-09 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 09 May 2012 18:57:06 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-09 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 9 May 2012 09:30:37 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: For your recommendation above, what are the advantages or differences of slicing the disk versus partitioning on a single slice? it could be a

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 09 May 2012 20:30:37 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 09 May 2012 18:57:06 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Thu,

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-03 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Jerome Herman jher...@dichotomia.fr wrote: [...] I must admit that Robert Bonomi tone was highly insulting for this list, and though I completely condemn the form of his post, I cannot say I disagree with the content. I disagree with both the form and the

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: [ megasnip ] Things to investigate : - When was the last time this box was rebooted normally ? Did it went fine ? After I moved the jails to the right place I archived the jails with ezjail-admin and rebooted the server several times, and everything

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-03 Thread jb
Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... devfs on /usr/jails/cmm-php52-1/dev (devfs, local, multilabel) ... /usr/jails/basejail on /usr/jails/cmm-php52-1/basejail (nullfs, local, read-only) fdescfs on /usr/jails/cmm-php52-1/dev/fd (fdescfs) procfs on /usr/jails/cmm-php52-1/proc (procfs,

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-03 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: [ megasnip ] Things to investigate : - When was the last time this box was rebooted normally ? Did it went fine ? After I moved the jails to the right place I archived

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-03 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:05 PM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... devfs on /usr/jails/cmm-php52-1/dev (devfs, local, multilabel) ... /usr/jails/basejail on /usr/jails/cmm-php52-1/basejail (nullfs, local, read-only) fdescfs on

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-03 Thread jb
Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... I have no idea, but cmm-php52-1 is in fact the problematic jail with the MySQL problem. Could you please include displays of 1. your troubled machine's $ cat /etc/fstab Note: you already showed us 'mount' output. 2. your other trouble-free

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-03 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:40 PM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... I have no idea, but cmm-php52-1 is in fact the problematic jail with the MySQL problem. Could you please include displays of 1. your troubled machine's   $ cat /etc/fstab   Note:

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-03 Thread jb
Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... OK. There is this anomaly in your troubled jail. Because I have not been familiar with ezjail so I am learning it now as we go. I will suggest to you some steps by intuition, and you have to judge for both of us how to do it and what's appropriate.

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-01 Thread Robert Bonomi
Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 30 April 2012 07:36, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A competennt, not stupid, sysadmin would know these things. And not 'remove all doubt' (in the words of Abraham Lincoln), by raising such nonsense questions. A competent

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-01 Thread Edward M
On 04/30/2012 10:58 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: Reading_both_ of McKusick's Design of .. books, and the 'Unix System Admininstration Handbook', by Nemeth, et al. is a good_start_. Having a bunch of the books from O'Reilley Assoc. (http://www.ora.com), especially for 'standard' tools that you

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-01 Thread Edward M
On 05/01/2012 06:43 AM, Polytropon wrote: Except buying (good) books, you can also search for articles on the web. For example, A Fast File System for UNIX by M. K. McKusick is very interesting (at least it was for me when I lost all my important data). Some fs-related articles here:

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 12:58:10AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Reading _both_ of McKusick's Design of .. books, and the 'Unix System Admininstration Handbook', by Nemeth, et al. is a good _start_. Both? I'm aware of at least three (FreeBSD, 4.3BSD, and 4.4BSD) that are probably within the

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:43:43 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2012 00:37:51 -0700, Edward M wrote: On 04/30/2012 10:58 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: Reading_both_ of McKusick's Design of .. books, and the 'Unix System Admininstration Handbook', by Nemeth, et al. is a good_start_.

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Robert Bonomi
Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Monday 30 April 2012 02:02:41 jb wrote: Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... Back to theory on how the http-proxy jail 'swallowed' all the other jails including the basejail. A

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 18:36:08 Robert Bonomi wrote: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: That simply *ISN'T* going to happen -- not without a -lot- more evidence than any individual can provide from a single =unrepeadable= incident. ok, I am not the original poster but let me tell

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Monday 30 April 2012 02:02:41 jb wrote: Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... [...] A competennt, not

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Edward M
On 04/30/2012 08:38 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: just not very helpful or fun. This attitude will get He is helping,you need to learn how UFS, jails, nullfs, journaling, disk I/O and other stuff work. I have been following this thread and i must admit I also need to learn more on

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 18:36:08 Robert Bonomi wrote: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: That simply *ISN'T* going to happen -- not without a -lot- more evidence than any individual can provide from a

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Edward M eam1edw...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/30/2012 08:38 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote:  just not very helpful or fun. This attitude will get    He is helping,you need to  learn how UFS, jails, nullfs, journaling, disk I/O  and other stuff work.    I have been

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Eitan Adler
On 30 April 2012 07:36, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A competennt, not stupid, sysadmin would know these things.  And not 'remove all doubt' (in the words of Abraham Lincoln), by raising such nonsense questions. A competent sysadmin would ask questions when they don't know the

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 30 April 2012 07:36, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A competennt, not stupid, sysadmin would know these things.  And not 'remove all doubt' (in the words of Abraham Lincoln), by raising such nonsense

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Edward M
On 04/30/2012 10:22 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: Oh, please! He's not helping anyone. He's just being an obnoxious prick that thinks that by pointing out a lot of technical blabber and some cheap philosophical posé I guess i was going according to the fact that i have followed his

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread jb
Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... If you have really followed the thread, all I have done is try to find some explanation for a strange behavior of the system under normal use. It hung, and some directories were moved, period. I have posted some ideas to share with other people

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Eitan Adler on Monday, 30 April 2012: On 30 April 2012 07:36, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A competennt, not stupid, sysadmin would know these things.  And not 'remove all doubt' (in the words of Abraham Lincoln), by raising such nonsense questions. A competent

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:57 PM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... If you have really followed the thread, all I have done is try to find some explanation for a strange behavior of the system under normal use. It hung, and some directories were moved,

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread jb
Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... Thanks for pointing a plausible cause. What I have done so far is limit the offending jail to a specific cpuset and I wanted to add another disk to avoid contention with other jails. MySQL not only consumes the whole CPUs but also limits the whole

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:23:40 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: On 30 April 2012 07:36, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A competennt, not stupid, sysadmin would know these things.  And not 'remove all doubt' (in the words of Abraham Lincoln), by raising such nonsense questions. A

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Jerome Herman
On 30/04/2012 19:23, Eitan Adler wrote: On 30 April 2012 07:36, Robert Bonomibon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A competennt, not stupid, sysadmin would know these things. And not 'remove all doubt' (in the words of Abraham Lincoln), by raising such nonsense questions. A competent sysadmin

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 22:38:13 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A competennt, not stupid, sysadmin would know these things. And not 'remove all doubt' (in the words of Abraham Lincoln), by raising such nonsense

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:26:50 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: 3) the directories were moved at reboot by journal recovery, fsck or something else I think it's *extremely* unlikely that fsck was involved, because it just doesn't do things like

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-29 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:26:50 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: 3) the directories were moved at reboot by journal recovery, fsck or something else I think it's *extremely* unlikely

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-29 Thread jb
Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... And there was a log of a couple of ftp connections the same day this happened, the ONLY 3 messages before the reboot at about 6 pm and they were NOT from any of our customers. Here are the log entries: Apr 27 05:54:37 nune ftp.proxy[2726]:

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-29 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:15 PM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... And there was a log of a couple of ftp connections the same day this happened, the ONLY 3 messages before the reboot at about 6 pm and they were NOT from any of our customers. Here

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-29 Thread jb
Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... What you should do right now is to get some recent general or security cd/dvd with chkrootkit and rkhunter and run them from that external read-only media. I would also suggest that you look over config files of all packages involved.

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 02:02:41 jb wrote: Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... What you should do right now is to get some recent general or security cd/dvd with chkrootkit and rkhunter and run them from that external read-only media. I would also suggest that

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-29 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 02:02:41 jb wrote: Alejandro Imass ait at p2ee.org writes: ... What you should do right now is to get some recent general or security cd/dvd with chkrootkit and

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: All the jails wound up in the /usr/local/etc/apache22 of the only surviving jail which is the http proxy to all the other jails. Right before the server crashed I noticed MySQL at 100% o several CPUs and

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I somewhat agree, but it wasn't a person. I am the only administrator, the only one with root access. The jails were effectively moved to the /usr/local/etc/apache22 of the single that survived at the top level. I'm thinking something between mount, EzJail, the journal and the way MySQL created a

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I somewhat agree, but it wasn't a person. I am the only administrator, the only one with root access. The jails were effectively moved to the /usr/local/etc/apache22 of the single that survived at the top

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I somewhat agree, but it wasn't a person. I am the only administrator, the only one with root access. The jails were effectively moved to the

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:  Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I somewhat agree, but it wasn't a person. I am the only administrator, the only

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:  Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: After a little more research, ___it it NOT unlikely at all___ that under high distress and a hard boot, UFS could have

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:  Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: After a little more research, ___it it NOT

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:52:02 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:  Alejandro Imass

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:52:02 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM,

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Jerome Herman
On 28/04/2012 19:52, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Robert Bonomibon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Alejandro Imassaim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Alejandro Imassaim...@yabarana.com wrote:

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Edward M
On 04/28/2012 11:16 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: That is what worries me, is that it wasn't just some random bit or cosmic ray, but the potential of happening again. I am not so sure that it is*impossible* that a jail could affect other jails with EzJail. Sorry I'm late to the party. How

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 28 April 2012 20:15:25 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I somewhat agree, but it wasn't a person. I am the only administrator, the only one with root access. The jails were effectively moved to the

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread perryh
Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: 3) the directories were moved at reboot by journal recovery, fsck or something else I think it's *extremely* unlikely that fsck was involved, because it just doesn't do things like that. It might move an orphaned directory (or file) to lost+found, but

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On Saturday 28 April 2012 20:15:25 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I somewhat agree, but it wasn't a person. I am the only

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:26 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: [...] Any chance that your base system -- rather than one of the jails -- has somehow been cracked; maybe even that the cracker precipitated the crash?  It might be wise to restore the whole

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 29 April 2012 08:58:17 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2012 20:15:25 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Sunday 29 April 2012 08:58:17 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: [...] Hi Erich, thanks for your reply. I don't know

UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-27 Thread Alejandro Imass
Hi folks, We had a server crash and required a hard reboot. The system is on one disk and another disc mounts /usr/jails and everything runs in jails, pristine base system, and the base system is working perfectly. The second volume, the one with the jails mounted but every jail directory

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-27 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: Hi folks, We had a server crash and required a hard reboot. The system is on one disk and another disc mounts /usr/jails and everything runs in jails, pristine base system, and the base system is working perfectly.

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 28 April 2012 09:33:47 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: We had a server crash and required a hard reboot. The system is on one disk and another disc mounts /usr/jails and everything runs in jails, pristine

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-27 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On Saturday 28 April 2012 09:33:47 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: We had a server crash and required a hard reboot. The system is

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
something. I unmounted the drive and ran fsck and reported no problems. df shows the data being use so where is the data?? your data is here as df shown usage and fsck see no errors. most probably root directory of that volume got corrupted and subdirs were found and put in lost+found

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-04-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
All the jails wound up in the /usr/local/etc/apache22 of the only surviving jail which is the http proxy to all the other jails. Right before the server crashed I noticed MySQL at 100% o several CPUs and the server was on it's knees, so I'm wondering was this an attack? is it possible that