thanks for telling me, I will keep that in mind since i was just about to setup a system like that. Any idea what is at fault? On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Visage Tech Support wrote: > Conclusion: > DO NOT USE SOFTWARE RAID-1 WITH EXT3 > > I've started with this conclusion cause i am positive that raid-1 and ext3 > are causing data corruption. > I've upgraded from 7.1 to 7.2 and from the first date i run into data > corruption problems @ least once per day (i was monitoring once per day > only) after 7 days we bought a brand new server cause the previous was very > old and i thought that the problems where caused of the hard disks (avg of 5 > years old ata/33). > After moving everything to the new server data corruption was something > happened every 2-3 hours, rebooting waiting about 20-30 minutes and data > corruption was visible on database files > > After a lot of search in the net i come in redhat forums and a read a post > regarding similar problems. > The poster switched back to ext2 to solve his problems as i did, after 24 > hours the system is stable and i do not have any problems. > Just wanted to post this message so any one other having the same problems > on production system should now what to do and not spending 15 days trying > to figure out what is causing the problems and even thinking switching to > windows os :-( > > Regards > Nick Ameladiotis > Help authoring tools > http://www.visagesoft.com > Shareware Registration Services > http://www.v-share.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users >
