Re: [OpenAFS] hard drive relaibility

2016-05-19 Thread Lars Schimmer
On 2016-05-19 17:37, Ted Creedon wrote: > During a drive upgrade a brand new WD29EFRX 2TB drive containing my RW > volumes crashed. Yeah, HDs tend to fail at the beginning and at the end of their lifespan. So do a load test on the fist few days and if it runs well, it will run well the next few

[OpenAFS] hard drive relaibility

2016-05-19 Thread Ted Creedon
During a drive upgrade a brand new WD29EFRX 2TB drive containing my RW volumes crashed. After talking to drive recovery firms I've learned that the new reliability philosophy is cheap drives & rely on the users RAID for recovery, Fortunately I have 4 RO backups, One repair firm said they see

Re: [OpenAFS] failed to write to cache items off

2016-05-19 Thread Andreas Ladanyi
> What filesystem is used for the disk cache? We use a diskcache on ext4 filesystem on SSD drive. > > -Ben > > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> i found this error in syslog of an ubuntu 14.04.4 client, openafs-client >> from ppa archive: >> >> afs: failed to write to Cach