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Recently our sysadm accidentally powercycled our server (RedHat8) after 198 days of uptime, and upon boot it insisted on checking one partition (/dev/sda7) in our RAID. When it was done, the files were in the state of August 23 last year, with anything newer either gone or invisible. I guess something went wrong with journaling data. What can I do to restore the current state (except restore from

Hi: We are using ext3 on a set of machines running a 2.2 kernel. We are running 2.2.19 with the ext3-0.0.6b patch. All has been good until we moved to a new type of machine. Can someone point us to the latest 2.2 patches? We'd like to look at the changelogs between 0.6b and the latest to see if the symptoms we are seeing may be addressed under the latest patch. We cannot move to

We are looking to set up a cluster of machines using LVS and running EXT3 on each machine. Does anyone have any feedback on doing this? Any known gotchas? The stable version of IPVS kernel module is for 2.4.12. The latest stable kernel in 2.4.16 The latest patch for ext3 is for 2.4.14 or 2.4.17pre2. Any suggestions on what combo to try? Thanks, Charlie

Hi, I have a doubt in the ordering of writes in ext3. Any help is appreciated. Ext3 enforces certain ordering in writes to ensure data integrity. For example, the journal writes are issued first and only after their successful completion the actual writes are issued. Sometimes we need to maintain ordering across transactions also. This is needed because if the actual writes of one transaction

What is the timeframe for the L2 switching to be incorporated into the Xen dev tree? Is there any way to learn more about its design while the implementation is still cookin''? > The VFR in the mainline tree only supports IPv4. However, Mike Wray has developed a > L2 network switch support for Xen, which will hopefully be checked in soon. One > side effect of L2 Ethernet MAC

Stephen et al, You may remember me raising the point that the new e2fsprogs (1.25 as I remember) griped about old journals not having all the appropriate fields zeroed. I've just discovered that the RH 7.2 installer produces journals (ie on partitions created as ext3 from within the installer) that flag these warnings with a modified 1.25 e2fsck (the mods being to clear the errors rather

I managed to install 0.5d today. Got all 3 of my mounts converted (even '/' though it was a pain in the ass). Now on boot, I see: mounted /dev/hda1 on / EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode and the exact same thing for /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdb1. they all come up and appear to be working. so is this normal? Or did I manage to screw up somewhere? -- Douglas J. Hunley (Linux User

Hi! Till now I thought btrfs does not use journaling at all, but utilize COW approach for operations atomicity. But, when I have seen in "Btrfs Timeline": July 31, 2008: Data=ordered mode support, preventing null bytes in a file after a crash. I have begun to doubt - whether I correctly understand atomicity and transactions concepts of btrfs. Please, can you clear these doubts? Is btrfs

Hello all, Yesterday I moved using the mv command in Redhat 7.2 ext3 file system to move to /tmp my /mnt/win98/"My Pictures" directory to tmp. The command executed normally, and I actually verified that the subdir was created in /tmp and the files were there in /tmp/"My Pictures" I was doing this to temporarily free space on my vfat windows 98 partition. When I went

Hi, We are currently doing SpecSFS comparison benchmarking to evaluate advantages of FS journaling to NVRAM card versus journaling to hard disks. We compare NFS performance for Linux file server with ext3 file system in ?data=journal? mode for three different locations of the file system journal: - inside main file system - on a dedicated HD - on an NVRAM PCI card The file system is

Has anyone tried LFS (ie >2G files support) and Ext3 together? Are there good reasons why this should/should not work? I see the RH enterprise kernel patch set specifically does not attempt both lfs and ext3, but the lfs patches themselves touch some reasonably localised parts of ext2, so I would hope (without having dived in there to test), that the ext3 changes would mirror that

Hi there, I'm running Redhat Linux V8.0 using ext3 file system and I'm wondering what the maximum file size allowed is? I've got some potentially humunguous logfiles I need to store that could likely be around 4-8GB per day and just want to make sure I don't run into problems. TIA! Kevin Cavanagh

Hello! I'm using i868 (Pentium III) machine running Windows 2000 and running Linux, installed on dedicated partition, in parallel via VMWare. Linux config is RedHat 7.0 (kernel ) As I'm pretty new to Linux, I'd like to know exact procedure how to install ext3 filesystem support (also which packages do I need). My kernel config is as follows: kernel-headers-2.2.14-5.0

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 June 2001 13:05, Rick Sivernell babbled: > Doug > > Educate me please. What is the diff between ext2 & 3. I am using reiserfs > now and do like it. But I do like to have the stuff going, if I can. Be warned, I know nothing about reiserfs other than what I've read. short version: ext3 is a further development of

Hi, I'm formatting a flash with ext3, but I need to move the journaling file (/.journal) in the flash to prevent it's corruption. In previous message I read that it's possible (https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2004-March/msg00009.html), but I can't find any /.journal in my ext3 fs. How can move the journaling file in the flash without /.journal file?? Thanks

Is there any more docs on this other then the blurb on beta.redhat.com? I got a spare non-critical victim err... test machine I want to try this on and have all the RPMS, but would really like to chew on a little more detail before I leap. Regards, Henri -- "People die." --The Cynic's Book of Wisdom

Hello, I recently implemented ext3 using tune2fs -j /dev/hda1, and have been using it successfully for a while. However the .journal file is huge and growing on my limited amount of disk space. How can I rotate or re-initialize the file, preferably without rebooting, on a daily/weekly basis? Regards, Dan Barber Mojolin --------------- Mojolin: Linux, Unix and Embedded Jobs and Resumes.

Hi, I just started testing ext3 and perhaps I missed some docs explaining how to convert system partition other than /, like /usr for example . As I have 2 Linux versions on my test machine, I managed to convert /usr by entering the mount -o journal=NNN command from the second OS, but I don't like it. Any suggestions or docs to look at? Thanks in advance Vieri

Hi, I'd like to use a flash drive as a journal device, with the purpose of keeping the main disk drive spun down as long as possible. I have a couple of questions: 1) Does the journaling code spread write accesses to the journal device evenly, as I hope, or are there blocks that are particularly "hot"? I.e., do I have to worry about the flash device dying quickly because of

Just fired up a test machine on its first 2.4 kernel - specifically 2.4.9-ac16 (includes ext3 0.9.6). Had also upgraded e2fs tool set to 1.23. This box has previously had 2.2 kernels with Stephen's ext3 patches, and looks like it was last rebuilt from scratch in early March. I suspect it may have an old version 1 format journal on the filesystems. [Unfortunately I managed to destroy the