Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Alfredo Valles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ext 3 is the most safe file system, you can ever recover deleted files if things gets ugly. No, not really. Folks on the ext3 list constantly advise that no, you usually can't undelete files on ext3. Unless, maybe, you immediately cut power to the

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-23 Thread Mark C
It sure sounds like you don't have DMA enabled on your drive. Debian (bless its little heart) will not do this for you automatically, which is not what people from Red Hat expect. This is wrong, being an ex redhat user (well to long) before I slipped into the Debian camp, redhat do NOT use

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Mark == Mark C [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark This is wrong, being an ex redhat user (well to long) before Mark I slipped into the Debian camp, redhat do NOT use dma on Mark either hard drive or cdrom, this has to be turned on Mark manually as well (Just on redhat very

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-23 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:47 pm, Aaron wrote: A follow up: I got a suggestion to try ReiserFS, anyone else running Reiser that is happy with it? I ran reiser for some time and I can say it's very fast. But, if you are in risk of suffering an unspected power down I certanly not recommend it.

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-23 Thread Aaron
On -993-Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:39:33AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus, Mark == Mark C [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark This is wrong, being an ex redhat user (well to long) before Mark I slipped into the Debian camp, redhat do NOT use dma on Mark either

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
aaron == aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dmesg | grep ^hd | grep sector aaron hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, aaron CHS=2434/255/63, UDMA(33) aaron I haven't had a chance to go verify the DMA settings on my aaron Debian file

Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Aaron
Fellow Debs, I'm sorry this is so long. Specificity before brevity when asking for help, that's what I always say... Okay, I don't say that a lot. I have two things to bring to you today (as if I don't post enough of my silly problems already). The first is why my ext3 drive is so slow, and the

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:49:32PM -0400, Aaron wrote: What is this all about?! Is there any way I can fix it? Is it not an ext3 problem? It is almost definitely not an ext3 problem, and you'd likely see the same behavior with whatever fs you use. More likely, the problem is that you don't

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Richard Heycock
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 12:49, Aaron wrote: Fellow Debs, I'm sorry this is so long. Specificity before brevity when asking for help, that's what I always say... Okay, I don't say that a lot. I have two things to bring to you today (as if I don't post enough of my silly problems already).

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Aaron
A follow up: I'm running kernel version 2.4.21 on the file server, and in RedHat I was running 2.4.18-3. None of the hardware has changed between distros. Right now my system drive is hda and my storage drive (the one in question) is hdb1 and hdb2 (two 100 gig primary partitions on a single 200

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-22 Thread Shyamal Prasad
aaron == aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: aaron I have two things to bring to you today (as if I don't post aaron enough of my silly problems already). The first is why my aaron ext3 drive is so slow, and the second is what other aaron alternatives I have, if any. aaron