Awesome, thanks for the explanation! Glad to hear its working now :) On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:34 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matty Sarro wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Looks like the fsck bug has been stomped! I did a 960G drive this > >> morning, and I'm 90% of the way through a 1.4T drive, both of which > have *lots* > >> of files and hard links, and it has *not* hung at 70.1%, and is running > at > >> reasonable speed. > >> > >> Thanks to the folks who got this one. I *really* needed to do this, esp. > >> to our backup drives. > > > Pardon my ignorance, but can you detail the bug a little more, or link to > > a bug report? I'm unafamiliar :) > > Don't remember the bug report, but on large drives with a *lot* of files - > you know, the kind that you use to back up /home? - if you gave fsck a -C, > so you could see the progress, you knew that it got to, I forget if it was > 70% or 70.1%, but at that point, it was dead. Never came back, even > leaving it overnight. > > Interestingly enough, just today, there was a report of a bugfix for > e2fsprogs, and one of those may have sounded like it was related. > > mark > > -- > 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