I'm using ext4 on my servers on 10.04 and never had the unfortunate experience of, knock on wood, file corruption. Hopefully, I don't, ever.
You can refer to the LVM volume via /dev/mapper/<vg name>[/-]<lv name> --- mike t. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Michael Janapin <[email protected]> > To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List ><[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 9, 2010 9:25:47 > Subject: Re: [plug] Weird File Behavior > > I might be labeled old-fashioned but my /boot is still in ext2. LOL. :-) > > I forgot to tell your that my /dev/sda1 is configured with LVM. > > I'm googling now on how to fsck my partition in LVM. > > On Dec 9, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > > > Ah. That's what I get for only using ext4 on /boot. I'm still an XFS > > fan, but keeping an eye out for how btrfs turns out. ;) > > > > -- > > Federico Sevilla III, CISSP, CSM, LPIC-2 > > Chief Executive Officer > > F S 3 Consulting Inc. > > http://www.fs3.ph > > > > > > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 08:22 +0800, Michael Janapin wrote: > >> Ok. I'll try this. I haven't rebooted in a while. :-) > >> > >> In my search on the ubuntu forums, they call this the 'dreaded file >corruption in ext4'. > > >> > >> So right now I'm thinking of migrating my large files to an XFS > >> partition. >Sigh. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> On Dec 9, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Mhac, > >>> > >>> Have you tried running fsck on your file system first to make sure it's > >>> okay? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Federico Sevilla III, CISSP, CSM, LPIC-2 > >>> Chief Executive Officer > >>> F S 3 Consulting Inc. > >>> http://www.fs3.ph > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 06:00 +0800, Michael Janapin wrote: > >>>> I am experiencing a very weird behavior on my Ubuntu 10.04 box (with > >>>> ext4 >as fs of my /). > >>>> I have several large iso files (3GB or more) and whenever I md5sum > >>>> them, >it turns out different everytime. !? > >>>> I also experienced that when I copy/move a large file, it turns out > >>>> with >a different md5sum in its new location. > > >>>> Also when I scp/wget/ftp those files over the network, the md5 changes >again. > > >>>> > >>>> This only happens with large files. The smaller ones have no problem. > >>>> Could it be with my file system? Or could it be something else? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks! > >>>> > >>>> Mhac J > >>>> _________________________________________________ > >>>> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > >>>> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > >>>> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > >>> _________________________________________________ > >>> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > >>> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > >>> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > >> > >> _________________________________________________ > >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
