Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-09 Thread Jan Stary
On Aug 02 20:55:56, Mark Smith wrote: So yes it is a memory issue, your 500G disk is too big for your Alix1c. To be precise: the 500G _filesystem_ is too big, not the disk, right? fsck'ing 10 separate 50g filesystems would be less of a problem, right? jan

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-09 Thread Mark Smith
Jan Stary wrote: On Aug 02 20:55:56, Mark Smith wrote: So yes it is a memory issue, your 500G disk is too big for your Alix1c. To be precise: the 500G _filesystem_ is too big, not the disk, right? fsck'ing 10 separate 50g filesystems would be less of a problem, right? jan Yes.

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-04 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:00:03AM +0200, M. Feenstra wrote: Thank's for you answer. Yes I have read the FAQ (some people actually do). That is where I came up with the memory as a suspect. The reason I still ask is that is crashes the system. It does not quit with an out of memory kind

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-04 Thread Nick Holland
M. Feenstra wrote: Thank's for you answer. Yes I have read the FAQ (some people actually do). That is where I came up with the memory as a suspect. The reason I still ask is that is crashes the system. It does not quit with an out of memory kind of error but just freezes the whole device.

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:09:41PM +0200, M. Feenstra wrote: Hi, I use a small device (Alix 1C based) running flashboot (OpenBSD 4.3) as my home Bacula backup server. The entire system is running in RAM (flashboot does that for me) except of course for the backup storage which is a 500G

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-02 Thread Mark Smith
M. Feenstra wrote: What surprices me is that is hangs the whole system. I can not login, reboot, access the kernel debugger or anything. I can only unplug the power and reboot after issueing this command. Is this caused because the system has no enough memory or am I missing something obvious

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-02 Thread Alexander Polakov
Sorry for hijacking your thread, but... What do you guys think about journalized ffs [1]? Can it help in such situations? Is there any chance to get it into OpenBSD kernel? [1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2008/07/31/msg37.html 2008/8/2, M. Feenstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi,