Re: Fileserver Issues

2007-09-17 Thread Nathan O
Thanks for reviewing this and providing feedback, Doug and Martin. I didn't actually get the messages until just now as it seems the replys in gmail tacks on to the message from the "sent" folder, silly me looking in the inbox for a new message ;-) Anyway, long story short Martin was right, it was

Re: Fileserver Issues

2007-09-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nathan O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.09.02.0807 +0200]: > booted back into Debian, created a partition on the device and (after > some mdadm hiccups) managed to re-add the old drive to the array. Care to elaborate about those hiccups? Anyway, from the information you provide, all I can

Re: Fileserver Issues

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:07:30PM +1000, Nathan O wrote: [snip trouble re raid5 and kernel panics] > it spent too long resyncing and all is well. The degraded array is > mounted and working fine. I erased and created an ext3 partition on > the suspect drive and data is being copied to it as I typ

Fileserver Issues

2007-09-01 Thread Nathan O
I have a home-use fileserver running Etch and distro-supplied kernels, software etc. It contains 2 x 4 drive raid5 arrays using mdadm. What I initially thought was a samba issue led to a few kernel panics and some "kernel bug" log messages. At first I had the bug messages when running 2.6.18-4 so I