2.4.9-34smp ------------------ 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 11:23 AM > To: mblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3? > > This sounds like a major bug in at least the RedHat-shipped > kernels. In many older versions of Netbackup, files greater > than 2GB could not be backed up (I believe you'd get an Error > 1, and the file would be skipped). This should never cause > massive filesystem corruption, and Netbackup shouldn't be at > issue here (it's just Veritas tar, and only should change > metadata when performing backups). Michael, do you have your > systems configured similarly? Marvin and Michael - what > kernel version are you running? > > -- > Chris Faehl > Hosting Manager, RightNow Technologies > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marvin Blackburn [mailto:mblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:13 AM > To: Faehl, Chris; 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' > Subject: RE: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3? > > > 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 > > ------------------ > 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 > > > -------------------- > > > 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
