Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > > He also has a login on the machine for testing but it's turned off at > > the moment I'll turn it on again if he asks. > I've already sent him a mail. BTW, is a simple login (I mean, for example > ssh) enough for this task? I would think at

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-11 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > He also has a login on the machine for testing but it's turned off at > the moment I'll turn it on again if he asks. I've already sent him a mail. BTW, is a simple login (I mean, for example ssh) enough for this task? I would think at least a serial console access is needed... --

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > > > I also gave him access to our machine, which has a 1.2 TB filesystem > > > on it. > > I have a 1.9TB FS about 4 km from him.. > That's great! > Could you please contact him? (do you also have this problem, BTW?) He also has a login on t

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > > I also gave him access to our machine, which has a 1.2 TB filesystem > > on it. > I have a 1.9TB FS about 4 km from him.. That's great! Could you please contact him? (do you also have this problem, BTW?) Thanks, --[ Free Software ISOs - http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download ]-

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > > > I'll try to reproduce the thing on my machine as soon as possible. > > > Perhaps it was just because it was Monday, who knows... > > Meanwhile I found out that my problem is 100% reproducible. > Since then, I contacted Kirk McKusick, who

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > > I'll try to reproduce the thing on my machine as soon as possible. > > Perhaps it was just because it was Monday, who knows... > Meanwhile I found out that my problem is 100% reproducible. Since then, I contacted Kirk McKusick, who told me that he will investigate this issue. I also gav

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-09 Thread phk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q? K=FChn?= writes: >On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > >> > I've been trying to reproduce this bug on my desktop. This machine has 2 >> > 80gb disks, one of which is dedicated with one slice. So far, after 8 hard >> >

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-09 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > > I've been trying to reproduce this bug on my desktop. This machine has 2 > > 80gb disks, one of which is dedicated with one slice. So far, after 8 hard > > resets, I haven't had any problem with either the machine or bgfsck > > hangi

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-30 Thread Ryan Dooley
> Dropping the number of inodes really helps fsck time; what does "df -i > /bigfilesystem" print? fs# df -i /users Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iusedifree %iused Mounted on /dev/da2s1e 999089944 457994296 46116845650% 6094282 25170996 19% /users fsize = 8192, bs

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 30), Ryan Dooley said: > > Just try to fsck 1.2 TB and you will be very-very patient :) > > Very patient indeed. I've got a 1.0TB partition about 51% full. > It's still a 4-STABLE system and the last fsck from a crash last > Friday (bad IBM, bad, no soup for you) took ju

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-30 Thread Ryan Dooley
> Just try to fsck 1.2 TB and you will be very-very patient :) Very patient indeed. I've got a 1.0TB partition about 51% full. It's still a 4-STABLE system and the last fsck from a crash last Friday (bad IBM, bad, no soup for you) took just about 55 minutes to fsck. *ugh* I'm torture testing

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:34:25PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > > Following reports of problems with bgfsck during the 5.0-RC series, and > > prior to the release, I spent some time adding hard disks to machines, > > resetting without clean shutdowns,

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > I really don't know. I have a SV25 barebone system from Shuttle (VIA > Twister Chipset) and an IBM deskstar 80GB IDE HD. Does that sound > familiar to you? Nope, mine is completely different. It is a HP tc4100 (I think it has an Intel MOBO, but I'm not sure) with an AHA-2940 controller an

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:34:25PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > Following reports of problems with bgfsck during the 5.0-RC series, and > prior to the release, I spent some time adding hard disks to machines, > resetting without clean shutdowns, and then interrupting background fscks, > piles of

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:23:08PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > > 47105 seems to be slightly different from what I saw, because my machine > > never paniced; the fsck just hung forever. > It depends. My machine hangs, there's no panic. Yes, I overlooked that in the PR when I read it first. Mine w

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:22:10PM -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > I've been trying to reproduce this bug on my desktop. This machine has 2 > 80gb disks, one of which is dedicated with one slice. So far, after 8 hard > resets, I haven't had any problem with either the machine or bgfsck > h

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > However, all those boxes used 40gb drives or smaller. I'll see if I > can't dig up some larger drives in the next week or two and try doing > that again. I can't transfer it to you, but can give access to a box which has 1.2 TB online. Just tell me what do you need. (ssh or console, for

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > I don't see it listed in 5.0-RELEASE ERRATA. Several people have now > > reported problems with background fsck and in the case Kirk as > > original author is loaded with other work I see no justification to > > not mention the brokenness of

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Attila Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some > > > "torture-testing". When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded > > > fsck I experienced the

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > 47105 seems to be slightly different from what I saw, because my machine > never paniced; the fsck just hung forever. It depends. My machine hangs, there's no panic. > > I've already written to Kirk McKusick, but it seems that he has a lot > > of work, because I didn't get answer. > Ok,

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > > I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some > > "torture-testing". When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded > > fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back > > quickly and bg fsck worke

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Attila Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some > > "torture-testing". When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded > > fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back > > quick

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some > "torture-testing". When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded > fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back > quickly and bg fsck worked fine, except for one. I had created a large > (>50GB) /expor

Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-27 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some "torture-testing". When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back quickly and bg fsck worked fine, except for one. I had created a large (>50GB) /export filesys