Hi everyone, I have a Dell Poweredge 2550 running debian 3.0 (woody), kernel 2.4.25. I've recently installed a second set of 36GB SCSI disks, configured as a RAID-1 mirror using the PERC controller and mounted as /home. Its formatted as ext2 (originally ext3, but I converted back thinking that was the issue). I've had this happen about 4 times now, twice before the conversion back to ext2. The server is a web, mail, and nfs server for an ISP, and needs to as reliable as possible. I wanted to be able to use LVM to combine my new /home partition with the old one, giving me more space. I was first alerted to the problem when a customer reported that they were unable to view their website. ls -l gave me errors like this: /bin/ls: .addressbook: Input/output error /bin/ls: .lynx_cookies: Input/output error /bin/ls: .procmailrc: Input/output error /bin/ls: .kermrc: Input/output error The console was spewing LVM IO errors (sorry, I didn't write them down). One disk had an amber blinking light, but that dissappeared after the reboot. When I halted the system, I got the 'VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds' message, which was quite alarming. My questions: 1. Where should I be looking for the problem? Is it LVM? 2. What are some solutions? Should I upgrade my kernel? 3. How stable is LVM on kernel 2.4? 4. What's up with the "Self destruct" message? Is it really that severe? 5. How can I capture the kernel error messages to a remote log server? (I'm using syslog-ng) Additional Information, including dmesg vgdisplay and kernel config: http://community.netidea.com/admin/jan2006/ Thanks. -- Sincerely, Kirk Ismay System Administrator -- Net Idea 201-625 Front Street Nelson, BC V1L 4B6 P:250-352-3512 | F:250-352-9780 | TF:888-246-4222 10 Years of Service Excellence! Visit us online at: www.netidea.com | www.netidea.biz _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
