On Jan 18, 2006 16:16 -0800, Dennis Williams wrote: > I looked through the archives a bit and could not find anything relevant, > if you know otherwise please point me in the right direction. > > I have a ~3T ext3 filesystem on linux software raid that had been behaving > corectly for sometime. Not to long ago it gave the following error after > trying to mount it: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md0, > or too many mounted file systems This sounds like the superblock has been overwritten. There are occasional reports from > 2TB filesystem users of similar corruption. It isn't clear if the problem exists in ext3 or if it is in the block or SCSI layer. > some more information on the system: > os flavor: Suse 9.1 > kernel version: 2.6.5-7.202.7-default (various suse patches applied to > 2.6.5 kernel) RHEL4 (2.6.9) claims support for up to 8TB filesystems. I don't know what patches they made, if any, in order to have this working. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
