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Since I ain't got a better place to report this, I do it here: Kernel 2.4.20-ac1 # uptime 16:31:00 up 2 days, 22:10, 7 users, load average: 1.89, 2.20, 2.99 This is our main mailbox server. We're running ext3: # cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/sdb5 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/sda6 /home ext3 rw,noatime,nosuid 0 0 /dev/sdb8 /tmp

Right now I'm building a 2.4.17 kernel on an HPPA Linux system. The kernel it ships with supports ext2 only. Has anybody tried ext3 on HPPA? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V A) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite Campus Virchow-Klinikum Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Referat V A - Kommunikationsnetze - Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 "A man who

Hey how is it going. I can't seem to access the latest patch for 2.4.14 from the website @ www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ Can someone send me the file (by email) or have a mirror/site where I can download from. Thanks ps - I know the purpose of the mailing list is not this, but this is my last resort. I really need to try ext3 on my laptop. thanks again exo

Hello, it seems I am having a problem with loop mounting on ext3. I am doing this: - make an ext2 filesystem in a file - loop mount this file - write into the loop mounted file system - umount the file Sometimes this works; occasionally the file remains empty after the umount. A sync before the umount seems to help. Is this a known problem? Thanks, Andreas.

We have been using ext3 for our Maildir message store for the better part of a year now. I saw Stephen mention fragmentation and wondered if we might be affected from this as well. How can I find out how fragmented our message store is? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V A) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite Campus Virchow-Klinikum Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155

On my Debian box: Package: lilo Version: 1:22.2-5 Severity: normal lilo seems to cause a kernel warning (see subject) when / is a ext3 partition. Maybe a kernel problem? Who knows. I'm running 2.4.19-rc1-ac7 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux hummus 2.4.19-rc1-ac7 #1 Wed Jul 17 22:14:20 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions

How do I increase the journal size of a partition? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V A) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite Campus Virchow-Klinikum Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Referat V A - Kommunikationsnetze - Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 The Imperial Vendor or Contractor probably told them that droid armies don't need redundant command centers, nor

Hi! I'm investigating the maximum DB size of mySQL on ext3 with a 2.4 kernel. * mysql is supposed to support tables up to 2^63 bytes * kernel-2.4.x supports files up to a size of 16 TB But what about the filesystem? What are the limits for the local filesystem (ext2, ext3, ReiserFS and XFS) ? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V A) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite Campus

Please have a look at this http://www.net.oregonstate.edu/~kveton/fs/ While I'm not doubting the numbers per se, I fail to see how the lines: ext3 w/ noatime and ext3 w/ noatime,data=ordered can actually be different. According to the docs, the default mode IS data=ordered! -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V A) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite Campus Virchow-Klinikum

The ext3-2.4-0.9.17-2418p3 patch applies with 0 fuzz against both 2.4.18 pre 4 and 2.4.18 pre3-ac2. Will it be included into 2.4.18 pre 5? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V A) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite Campus Virchow-Klinikum Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Referat V A - Kommunikationsnetze - Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 "Debugging is

On a 2.4.15-pre5 system with a 3ware-Escalade-68000 IDE RAID (mode 1) we had the follwing "dmesg" output today: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,38)): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 16, count = 1 EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,38)): ext3_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 1052672 EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,38)): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone

There's a big thread about filesystems on postfix-users@postfix.org Could you shed some light on that issue? ----- Forwarded message from Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org> ----- From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 07:53:26 -0500 (EST) To: Lawrence Greenfield <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org>,

Which disk is it? /dev/sda6 or /dev/sdb8 or /dev/sdc6? >From my log: Jun 10 21:25:39 postamt1 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jun 10 21:25:39 postamt1 kernel: 08:06: rw=0, want=1680353324, limit=59954548 Jun 10 21:25:39 postamt1 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,6)): ext3_readdir: directory #3473659 contains a hole at offset 1852399616 $ mount /dev/sdb6 on / type auto (rw)

I'm lacking some understanding of how to tune / when to tune /proc/sys/vm/bdflush Where can I read up on this? Our current problem: Load is low, but ever so often the system decides to do some serious disk I/O which causes all processes to wait for disk I/O -- load explodes (rises linear up into the 20-30ies) just to fall linearly (spelling?) right after that. We think there might be some

Hello, what is the state of the onion with the ext3 support in the upcoming 2.4.15? I don't think it will be on the current cvs level (due to linus accept policy :). So, will there be patches to place a current kernel on the cvs state? -- Regards, Wiktor Wodecki | http://johoho.eggheads.org wodecki@gmx.de | IRC: Johoho@IrcNET

Hello, I've got a rather strange setup over here with about 6 ext3 partitions, one 50gig lvm partition and one 2 gig software-raid1 partition running under a heavily patched 2.4.10 kernel (various netfilter patches, freeswan, current lvm patch (1.0.1-rc4 and current ext3 patch). Furthermore I have all of those neccessary filesystem tools, so don't tell me to upgrade :-) The machine was

Hi. I am using a large storage which is ext2 file system of 1T byte. It has many file types, doc, mail data, zip, etc. It doesn't have a database file. I want to change the file system from ext2 to ext3. It also can't divide to any partitions. How to decide journal mode and journal size? Please advice to me. Recommend a journal mode. (orderd or journal) Recommend a journal

Hi! Today I switched over to devfs. I'm on Debian unstable, installed devfsd, installed a kernel with devfs support and "devfs mount on boot". Reboot, devfs is being used. All over a sudden, dmesg reports: Linux version 2.4.21-ac1 (root@hummus) (gcc version 3.3 (Debian)) #1 Sun Jun 15 19:06:13 CEST 2003 ... kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted

Hi! I keep getting errors like these: oplock_break failed for file Word/einaikoon/v-Locator/IBB-Beantragung/0_Antrag_AZK.doc (dev = 301, inode = 2469218, file_id = 7). [2003/07/31 15:43:22, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(843) oplock_break: client failure in break - shutting down this smbd. [2003/07/31 15:47:12, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(758) oplock_break: receive_smb error (Success)

On several machines with ext3 we have a periodic "unresponsiveness" problem. Take for example our mailserver: When it handles a lot of email (lots of deliveries to Maildirs), it shovels the data into the Maildirs. But every now and then (the interval being >> 5s, the commit interval) the machine becomes unresponsive, your hear a lot of disk activity, and after about 12-18s the