Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors (md device related?)

2008-05-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Les Mikesell wrote: Back to this problem again. I did a new mkfs.ext3 and ran more than a week before hitting this again: Mar 14 04:12:29 linbackup1 kernel: md3: rw=0, want=14439505280, limit=1465143808 Mar 14 04:12:29 linbackup1 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md3): ext3_readdir: directory

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors (md device related?)

2008-03-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Back to this problem again. I did a new mkfs.ext3 and ran more than a week before hitting this again: Mar 14 04:12:29 linbackup1 kernel: md3: rw=0, want=14439505280, limit=1465143808 Mar 14 04:12:29 linbackup1 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md3): ext3_readdir: directo

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors (md device related?)

2008-03-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: Can this be related to being on a 3-member RAID1 that normally runs with one device misssing? I've run a different one that way for a couple of years on earlier kernels. Well, I also found this one: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/6455/focus=6908 Is your ma

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors (md device related?)

2008-03-14 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can this be related to being on a 3-member RAID1 that normally runs > with one device misssing? I've run a different one that way for a > couple of years on earlier kernels. Well, I also found this one: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/6455/focu

RE: [CentOS] ext3 errors (md device related?)

2008-03-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: > Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > > Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> 'fsck -y' seems to fix it up, but it keeps happening. Is this likely > >> to be leftover cruft from the hardware issues or are there problems > >> in ext3/raid1/sata drivers? The way backuppc stores

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors (md device related?)

2008-03-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 'fsck -y' seems to fix it up, but it keeps happening. Is this likely to be leftover cruft from the hardware issues or are there problems in ext3/raid1/sata drivers? The way backuppc stores data with millions of hardlinks in the ar

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors

2008-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:11 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > >> > > If you use cpio, it can handle the hard links intelligently, IIRC. That > > may make this more feasible. Plus you can specify such things as depth > > to the find command feeding cpio so that even direc

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors

2008-02-25 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'fsck -y' seems to fix it up, but it keeps happening. Is this likely > to be leftover cruft from the hardware issues or are there problems > in ext3/raid1/sata drivers? The way backuppc stores data with > millions of hardlinks in the archive it isn't real

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors

2008-02-25 Thread Les Mikesell
William L. Maltby wrote: 'fsck -y' seems to fix it up, but it keeps happening. Is this likely to be leftover cruft from the hardware issues or are there problems in ext3/raid1/sata drivers? The way backuppc stores data with millions of hardlinks in the archive it isn't really practical to

Re: [CentOS] ext3 errors

2008-02-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I recently set up a new system to run backuppc on centOS 5 with the > archive stored on a raid1 of 750 gig SATA drives created with 3 members > with one specified as "missing". Once a week I add the 3rd partition, > let it sync, then remo

[CentOS] ext3 errors

2008-02-25 Thread Les Mikesell
I recently set up a new system to run backuppc on centOS 5 with the archive stored on a raid1 of 750 gig SATA drives created with 3 members with one specified as "missing". Once a week I add the 3rd partition, let it sync, then remove it. I've had a similar system working for a long time usin