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Hi, I'm about to roll out a whole bunch of Redhat Enterprise 4 workstations and have run into problems cloning from the original. Normally I would use ghost (v7.5) because it does a nice job when cloning to a different sized disk.Unfortunately it comes up with read error 29004. Looking around it seems that Symantec don't support Fedora Core 3 (with Ghost v.8 - don't know if v.9 works

Hello, We have run and stopped by chance command "fsck -y" on one of our raid disks (with ext3 file system). After that we have found that SOME files disappeared (they are not seen in the directories where they have been before). The data are extremely important and contain a lot of programs, scripts for some data analysis and very hard to recover by hands. I have run ''fsck

Hello, I have 2 boxes with 1.5TB storage with ext3 fs, and the kernel is 2.6.11.8. I'm using E2fsprogs 1.37 for FS creation. And, Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) There are 2 scenarios: 1. All SATA drives, RAID5 2. All PATA drives, RAID5 and wrapped in log volumes. I'm having lots of issues with fsck. I did search, but somehow not getting the right information. needs_recovery

Hi I have mailed about this previously, but back then it was not really confirmed, so I have let it be at that. Anyhow, problem is that for some reason 2.5/2.6 ext3 with HTREE support do not like what perl-5.8.0 does during installation. It *seems* like one of the temporary files created during manpage installation do not get unlinked properly, or gets into the hash (this possible?) and cause

Hey, I have two identical machines setup with a RAID 5 array. One of them is used for failovers and data from the master is synced everyday using rsync to the failover machine. The data on this disks are usually intranet KB's, DB's etc.. The RAID 5 arrays are formatted using the default options i,e mkfs.ext3 /dev/Xda. The RAID controller is 3ware escalade and each disk member in the RAID

My UPS failed and my server took an 'unscheduled outage' a few weeks ago. The only casualty appears to be a volume I used for backup. I usually maintain data on multiple hard disks, but in this case I errantly had some data (of marginal value) on this file system. At this point, the data is not worth enough for me to send the drive out for data recovery, but it's worth enough to

I have an ext3 filesystem that has several directories and each directory gets a large number of files inserted and then deleted over time. The filesystem is basically used as a temp store before files are processed. The issue is over time the directory scans get extremely slow even if the directories are empty. I have noticed the directories can range in size from 4k - 100M even when they are

Our Invoice posting routine (intensive harddrive io) freezes every few seconds to flush the cache. Reading this: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2002-November/msg00070.html I decided to try: # elvtune -r 2048 -w 131072 /dev/sda # echo "90 500 0 0 600000 600000 95 20 0" >/proc/sys/vm/bdflush # run_post_routine # elvtune -r 128 -w 512 /dev/sda # echo "30 500 0 0

So you know, I don't know too much about file systems. Here is what I did: I have two linux boxes. the first box had many hardrives in it, but needed to be used in other ways. So I took 4 harddrives out of it and placed it in the other Linux box. I thought it would be able to read these right away. (maybe this was my mistake?) I could mount all of the drives in there. three of my

Hi, first of all, apologies if this isn't the right mailing list but it was the best I could find. If you know a better mailing list, please tell me. Today I tried to defrag one of my filesystems. It's a 3.5T large filesystem that has 6 software-raids in the bottom and then merged together using lvm. I was running ext3 but removed the journal flag with thor:~# tune2fs -O ^has_journal

On 6/27/13 3:57 AM, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > Eric, Andreas, > >>>> I have a system with an ext4 filesystem with its journal on an other >>>> device (an SSD). >>>> Now this SSD dropped of the sata bus so the filesystem went r/o. >>>> I would like to remove the journal but it says it can't because >>>> needs_check is set.

Hi I want my lustre do such things during OST failed: if some file has stripe data on th failed OST, any operation on the file will return IO error without blocking, and also at this moment I can create and read/write new file or read/write files which have no stripe data on the failed OST without blocking. What should I do ? How to configure? thanks! swin -------------- next part

Hi, Using dumpe2fs I have been able to determine that all of my alternate ext3 superblocks are corrupted (not clean), and only the primary superblock is valid, i.e. mount works and the ordered journal is applied. When the primary superblock gets flakey, i.e. the ext_attr Filesystem feature goes missing - not sure why this occurs. At this point, the mount does not apply the journal using the

I have been playing with external journals some more and thought I should share some experiences. I am running 2.4.16 with the ext3 patches from Andrew Morton and e2fsprogs 1.25 I have an ext3fs filesystem on an 8 drive RAID5 array and place the journal on a partition of the mirrored pair that I boot off (all drives SCSI). I have tried pulling the power cable and seeing what happens. I finally

Peter Kjellstr?m wrote: > On Monday 23 January 2006 16:46, Plant, Dean wrote: >> I need to downgrade a system from Centos x4.2 to v3.6 (x86) due to >> performance problems with Arkeia Network Backup and AIT-4 tape >> drives. The backup database is stored on a v4.2 created ext3 >> partition. When accessing this partition after the downgrade, Centos >> complains on

On 2013-06-26, at 9:38 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 6/25/13 3:13 AM, Folkert van Heusden wrote: >> >> I have a system with an ext4 filesystem with its journal on an other >> device (an SSD). >> Now this SSD dropped of the sata bus so the filesystem went r/o. >> I would like to remove the journal but it says it can't because >> needs_check is set. >

Hi! Is there a way to view ext3 filesystem's maintained journal (in a human-readable-format)? I ask, because i have had a server crash before and now i'm wondering if i might take a look at last things that my server did straight before crash. I guess clarifying log insertions might be lost before buffers were flushed to disk. Thx.

Hello-- We have a system where a central server formats removable hard disks, which are then booted in an embedded system running a highly modified RH9. The removable disks themselves contain boot, root, and data filesystems. The problem we've encountered after upgrading to FC3 / kernel 2.6 on the central server is that the 2.4 kernel in the embedded system cannot read the root filesystem,

Hi I was running few tests on the Ext3 filesystem having an external journal; basically trying to check recovery in crash scenarios. I started with simple scripts doing some filesystem operations on the ext3 partition and crashed the system with a direct poweroff. On reboot, I also corrupted the journal device by "dd"ing it out with blocks of zeroes. Now, when I try to mount the

Hi, I have a program that writes lots of files to a directory tree (around 15 Million fo files), and a node can have up to 400000 files (and I don't have any way to split this ammount in smaller ones). As the number of files grows, my application gets slower and slower (the app is works something like a cache for another app and I can't redesign the way it distributes files into disk due