RE: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3?

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We are using veritas backup and we use ext3 for all filesystems.
Our backups would die at about the same place.  The last file 
Being backed up appeared to be a file that warnings would be generated on.

I have the filesize limit set to 2 gb, and this file would appear to
Hit the limit.  Veritas would complain that it could not back this file up.
We put in a script that cleans the file every night and have not had the
problem since.

I did not replace the disks as there was not enough evidence to show that it
was the problem

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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faehl, Chris [mailto:cfaehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:00 AM
> To: mblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3?
> 
> 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
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