What are you using to perform backups? We're running PowerEdge 1750s, 2650s, and 6650s using RHEL 3 ES rather than WS, and have not seen this issue using Veritas NetBackup. Are you using any ext3 options on root? It sounds like you're experiencing a batch of bad RAID cards (or as Marvin indicated, maybe a bad batch of disks?) -- Chris Faehl Hosting Manager, RightNow Technologies -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marvin Blackburn Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:05 AM To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: RE: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3? We have had some strange problems during backups also. The file system starts reporting errors and the system hangs. A reboot fixes this. We have had this problem on 2 dell 2650's. There answer was to replace All the disks in the system with another make. They really don't have a clue as to what is happening. ------------------ Marvin Blackburn Systems Administrator Glen Raven "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Halligan > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:21 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3? > > I've had about three servers in the past week lose their root > partitions during nightly backup.. It only loses the root > partition, and it's rather strange. It doesn't necessarily > lose the data in the root partition, but it might as well, > since fsck ends up deleting all the inodes. These are all > Dell PowerEdge 1750s with two mirrored 36GB scsi drives on > Dell's Perc/4I card. > > I've given up trying to figure out who to talk to at dell for > the worthless support we purchased on these was hoping maybe > somebody else was running into this? I've dug through ERRATA > and haven't seen any > ext3 bugs, but at this point I'm unsure what to do. The > hardware seems fine, but I won't rule out the possibility > that these raid cards suck. > > Michael T. Halligan > -------------------- > Mypoints.com > Infrastructure Engineer > 415-615-1160 > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjectunsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
