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

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 data with

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:

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

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:

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: snip 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 directories

[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 using

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 remove

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

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 really