RE: fsck error on flashcard with ext2 filesystem

2005-03-14 Thread Santosh Gupta
a [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:37 AM > To: Santosh Gupta > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: fsck error on flashcard with ext2 filesystem > > > Hello, > > just a reminder for the next time - please keep the lines length under

Re: fsck error on flashcard with ext2 filesystem

2005-03-14 Thread Jan Kara
ssage- > From: Jan Kara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:37 AM > To: Santosh Gupta > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: fsck error on flashcard with ext2 filesystem > > > Hello, > > just a reminder f

RE: fsck error on flashcard with ext2 filesystem

2005-03-11 Thread Santosh Gupta
I thought it would be harmless. Thanks again. Regards, santosh -Original Message- From: Jan Kara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:37 AM To: Santosh Gupta Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: fsck error on flashcard with ext2 filesystem Hello, jus

Re: fsck error on flashcard with ext2 filesystem

2005-03-11 Thread Jan Kara
Hello, just a reminder for the next time - please keep the lines length under 80 characters. > Detailed Description > - > I am using Core Linux system on flashcard. Its another minimal linux > distribution. Root filesystem is cramfs and a rw partition on flash is >

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-17 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Linas Vepstas, (nice name ;-) > First problem: In kernel-2.4.2 and earlier, if the machine is not cleanly > shut down, then upon reboot, RAID reconstruction is automatically started. > (For RAID-1, this more-or-less ammounts to copying the entire contents > of one disk partition on one disk

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-16 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:51:52PM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote: ... > > If I've got the numbering right; > 0 - concatenated stripes => no sync required > 1 - mirrored => resync required > a: which drive has the correct info? a: there are timestamps in the superblocks. o

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3 + some numbers

2001-04-16 Thread Francois Romieu
Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : [...] > I want to report a trio of raid-related problems. The third one is > very serious, and effectively prevents 2.4.3 from being usable (by me). > [...] > The problem: this dramatically slows fsck after an unclean shut-down. > You can hear the driv

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction

2001-04-16 Thread Manfred Spraul
The first 2 problems aren't real problems (modify /etc/fstab, perhaps a special ioctl could be added to raid and fsck stops the reconstruction) - at most anoying, but clearly no bugs. But the third one could be a bug: > > Third problem: > > I just tried boot 2.4.3 today. (after an unclean shut

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Is this a pathological case because of the way fsck does business, or does the RAID >re-sync affect any disk-bound process that severely? i gues the seeks are the problem. fsck will quite heavyly reposition, so does the rebuild, most likely on differen

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <01041521302600.15046@tabby> you wrote: >>a) stop rebuild until fsck is fixed > And let fsck read bad data because the raid doesn't yet recognize the correct > one a degraded raid will not deliver broken data. and even if it does, one more reason not to check a degraded raid. > T

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 9:23 PM -0500 2001-04-15, Jesse Pollard wrote: > >b) wait with fsck until rebuild is fixed > >Depends on your definition of "fixed". The most I can see to fix is >reduce the amount of continued update in favor of updating those blocks >being read (by fsck or anything else). This really ought to

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Jesse Pollard
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >>>(There is no config file to disable/alter this .. no work-around that I >>>know of ..) > >> You can't be serious. Go sit down and think about what's going on. > >Well, there are two potential solutions: > >a

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >>(There is no config file to disable/alter this .. no work-around that I >>know of ..) > You can't be serious. Go sit down and think about what's going on. Well, there are two potential solutions: a) stop rebuild until fsck is fixed b) wait with fsck

Re: fsck, raid reconstruction & bad bad 2.4.3

2001-04-15 Thread Colonel
In list.kernel, linas wrote: > >First problem: In kernel-2.4.2 and earlier, if the machine is not cleanly >shut down, then upon reboot, RAID reconstruction is automatically started. >(For RAID-1, this more-or-less ammounts to copying the entire contents >of one disk partition on one disk to anoth

Re: fsck

2000-09-21 Thread tytso
Date:Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:06:22 +0200 From: octave klaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I make the tests of fsck with raid-soft 2x18Go raid-1. We crash the server to see how much time does fsck take (power down) :) - with standard /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit of redhat 6.2 it takes 1h30