--ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am having major problems on one of my file-servers. I have the root filesystem on an Ext3 software RAID 1 between four SCSI drives. It had been running for about two months without problems, but today I found it was having some trouble with unlinked inodes and I/O errors on certain files. I took it down to single-user mode, and ran fsck on it. That operation mixed up files like /etc/hosts with /etc/rc.sysinit, and vice versa. I straightened those out, and ran fsck again. That happened to trash such files as /etc/raidtab and /etc/passwd and caused I/O errors so that I could not straighten it out. Running fsck again made the problem worse by making /etc/rc.sysinit unaccessible, and preventing me from booting up at all. I d= on't have helpful snippets from the error log since I was on a serial terminal and was incapable of paging up. I'm glad I finally got the terminal up to 38400 b/s though.... Right now, I am probably going to have to re-install, but I am wondering if there is anything I can do in the future to prevent errors like this. Thanks for the help! --=20 -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@attglobal.net) --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8SwjYnMU1m27tfjARAne3AJ90YvXUv85fnnMdxxPHw3LRt+H6oQCeOlYk YGA5UkUm+Db9gxQOJXwgxWg= =oLLn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--
