Problems with 4.5 TB disk array (LVM & ext3)

2008-03-26 Thread Jan Schulze
Hi all, I have a disk array with about 4.5 TB and would like to use it as one lar ge logical volume with an ext3 file system. When mounting the logical volume , I get an "Input/Output error: can't read superblock". I'm using SL 4.2 with kernel 2.6 and this is what I did so far: - used parted to c

Re: Problems with 4.5 TB disk array (LVM & ext3)

2008-03-26 Thread Troy Dawson
Jan Schulze wrote: Hi all, I have a disk array with about 4.5 TB and would like to use it as one lar ge logical volume with an ext3 file system. When mounting the logical volume , I get an "Input/Output error: can't read superblock". I'm using SL 4.2 with kernel 2.6 and this is what I did so fa

Re: Problems with 4.5 TB disk array (LVM & ext3)

2008-03-26 Thread Jon Peatfield
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Jan Schulze wrote: Hi all, I have a disk array with about 4.5 TB and would like to use it as one large logical volume with an ext3 file system. When mounting the logical volume , I get an "Input/Output error: can't read superblock". Do you get any interesting kernel mes

Firefox crash on SL5

2008-03-26 Thread Faye Gibbins
Hi, Lots of our users are having trouble when using firefox with SL5 with the NVidia drivers (both legacy and newer ones). Running firefox using /usr/bin/firefox --sync --no-xshm this error message was reported after mine crashed and disappeared from the desktop: snip--- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Generating PDF via PHP in SL 5.1?

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Hannon
Greetings. We recently moved one of our web servers from an SL 3 system to an SL 5.1 system (x86_64). We had to move some "legacy" applications that were written in PHP and that generate reports in PDF format. It appears that pdflib (or maybe pdflib "lite") is the tool that's being used to gener

fsck.ext3 on large file systems?

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Hannon
Greetings. We have a lately had a lot of trouble with relatively large (order of 1TB) file systems mounted on RAID 5 or RAID 6 volumes. The file systems in question are based on ext3. In a typical scenario, we have a drive go bad in a RAID array. We then remove it from the array, if it isn't al

Re: fsck.ext3 on large file systems?

2008-03-26 Thread John Summerfield
Michael Hannon wrote: Greetings. We have a lately had a lot of trouble with relatively large (order of 1TB) file systems mounted on RAID 5 or RAID 6 volumes. The file systems in question are based on ext3. In a typical scenario, we have a drive go bad in a RAID array. We then remove it from t