Thanks for all the help you gave me, First of all just two considerations: the fsck ended after 10 hours, this because i was so stupid to start it without waiting the end of the raid rebuild, this happen when you do thing at 3:40 AM, after all this mess i've lost lots of data, of a 92GB file server /home i manage to recover just 29Gb. One thing that i didn't mention is that the 3 Maxtor disks were connected to a PCI Adaptec controller based non highpoint 370 chipset, which can be used also as RAID 0,1, 0/1 controller. I spoke with adaptec technical personnel who assured me that it should work without problems also simply as IDE bus. Anyway, at the moment i've done two things: first, i fell back to latest official RH kernel 2.4.18, second i've replaced the Adaptec controller with a Maxtor IDE bus card UATA 133 based on promise PDC20269 chipset. Now, i'll try to use a 2.4.20 kernel with ex3 patches, since i absolutely need a vanilla kernel. Thanks for the help, i'll post again if i discover that the problem was ex3 related. Byez Zeist _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
