Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 17 February 2005 23:09, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > > Problem with ext3. > > Been here, done this. > > Switch to reiserfs, problem will disappear. > > Reiser is also more suitable for lots of small files too. > > Aha ok, I will check that out. Do you know why this happens -- is ex

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Mike Williams -- > On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:41, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > > Now I do not really know where to search for the problem. Is it > > Linux's software raid5 implementation, which is buggy? Is it one or > > more of the IDE disks? Or is this normal

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:41, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Now I do not really know where to search for the problem. Is it Linux's > software raid5 implementation, which is buggy? Is it one or more of the > IDE disks? Or is this normal for large (~400gb) ext3 partitions? > > Where do I g

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Bob Sanders -- > Bad drives? I don't trust drives until they've run for at least 2 wks > after I purchase them - I've had them die in that time. But do you think that all 3 of them are bad? Since I run a raid and do the filesystem check over this whole array, I wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Bob Sanders
> I am running the backups every night, but afterwards when I unmount the > raid array and make a fsck.ext3 over it, every time I get errors (bad > blocks here, some inode errors there and so on). Next night I can use the > array quite fine, but on the day after that I get some filesystem errors

[gentoo-user] many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a backup system with 3 brand new IDE disks (200gb each), and a linux based software raid5 over them. I am storing data of some servers on this /dev/md0 (ext3 on it), including thousands of little files from a mailserver, some webs, and some data of windows based servers. I am ru