Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:06:52 +0200 | From | Cedric Ware <> | Subject | /var/spool/news on ext3fs, no go ? |
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Hello,
I am currently (still) in the process of setting up a small-to-medium Mail/WWW/NIS/NFS server, and was crazy enough to try toying with ext3.
The first tests were satisfactory, with hard resets in the middle of a few tar xf's and kernel compiles, both local and via NFS, and the system recovered gracefully - although I subsequently found quite a few files in lost+found after running e2fsck manually.
However, I was suggested to stress it using a news spool ; I set up INN with the timehash storage method, and watched articles come in.
And every day for a week INN has crashed, complaining that it couldn't create files in the spool. Indeed, one could find directories with zero size there (even . and .. would be missing) and a manual e2fsck recovers articles in lost+found.
Strangely, this happens systematically (but not exclusively) after the 7:30 crontab, which isn't really related to INN (the expire runs way earlier, at 0:15). And I wasn't able to reproduce the problem by manually running the cron jobs.
Of course, the problem no longer shows up after moving the spool onto an ext2 partition.
The machine is a Dell PowerEdge 2400 (dual PIII-500, Adaptec AIC-7890 U2W SCSI adapter, no RAID, Intel EtherExpress 100 network adapter) running Debian-frozen and kernel 2.2.17pre14 + ext3-0.0.2f + NFSv3 (Dave Higgen's merge 3.0).
If you want to try some other tests on that machine before I switch back to regular ext2, it's still not in production but should be RSN (I've been saying that for months... :-( )
Thank you, Cedric Ware.
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