Olivier Pasco wrote: > Hi, > > We have upgraded our server with RedHat 7.2 and changed the filesystem > for the new Ext3 format. Since then we are having troubles with NFS and > Samba file systems. > > Our server export directories to Windows clients through Samba and to > other Linux (RedHat 7.2) through NFS. It is also connected through NFS > to a RedHat 7.0 server. > > Since we changed for Ext3 filesystems, we experience to main problems > (everything was working well before) : > - using NFS directories from a Linux client may freeze the client > - when some Windows client reboot, the attached Samba process is > still alive but in an uninterruptible status and the server load > get quickly very high > In both cases, only a reboot (of the client for NFS or the server for > Samba) may solve the problem. Which meen today at least one reboot every > day... > > I am not sure this is due to Ext3 but the few information I found until > now let me think it can be related to it. Does any one here can help us > with this ? I would suggest to mount all offending filesystems as ext2 (just change /etc/fstab accordingly - besides the root fs) and see if the problems go away. If not, it isn't ext3 related. Juri
