Hi, 06.03.2010 18:46, Peter Allgeyer wrote: > Hi Arno! > > Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 14:00 +0100 schrieb Arno Lehmann: > >> I'm guessing that you're running an USB or (less likely, but still >> possible) FireWire external disk. If that's the case, you probably >> struck a bad USB-to-(S)ATA controller. > > Harddisk is FC attached.
Hmm. That should never cause any such errors, which seems to point at a higher level as the cause of this problem. Makes me think that even Bacula itself might be the cause. >> If you see this with internal hard disk, I'd recommend to check for >> bad disk blocks, and check the drive's SMART status using smartctl. > > Will check the drive. Haven't had any such problems when I set "Maximum > Volume Files = 1". But this prevents parallel jobs. Don't know, if the > upgrade to 5.0.1 is the cause, but think it's unlikely, because I've > read about the same error in old mails. I doubt that it's related to 5.0.1 - I've myself seen this error with versions as early as somewhere between 3.0.3 and 3.1.x (when I started using external hard disks). I know of those problems longer, though - and, as far as I can tell, it only happens with FireWire or USB disks. I would consider FC (or rather, the software stack built upon it) more like classical SCSI, i.e. much more robust than the whole USB/FW stuff, so I'm astonished seeing it happen with FC connected disks. Unfortunately, I don't know if you'll be able to learn anything useful from smartctl or badblocks if you're running more than a single FC disk... anything in a managed storage system should behave error-free to the outside, and do all error handling and -correction internally. Good luck analyzing anyway, and if you find reasons to believe this is really Bacula-related I'd be glad to see the bug report and eventual fix :-) Cheers, Arno > Best regards, > P. Allgeyer > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
