Re: [CentOS] Ext4 mess .... and EXT4-fs error (device sdc): ext4_mb_generate_buddy - SOLVED

2014-04-28 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi, if anybody wondered what happend: One logic volume on the iscsi storage was configured to two different LUNs, the second LV was not connected at all. So the server was logged in to the same LV and at some point the Journal got messed etc ... Regards . Götz -- Götz Reinicke

[CentOS] Ext4 mess .... and EXT4-fs error (device sdc): ext4_mb_generate_buddy

2014-04-20 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi, I'm faced with a very strange behaviour: Centos 6.5 server, Hardware ISCSI HBA from Emulex OneConnect, most recent drivers and firmware from emulex installed. Directly attached a 10G ISCSI Storage from QSan. Two Raid volumes, Raid 5, 8 Disks each at 2 TB so 14 TB each logic raid volume.

Re: [CentOS] ext4 deadlock issue

2013-03-30 Thread Joakim Ziegler
I've had a chance to test this a bit more. Updating the firmware on the controller had no effect, so I tried changing the scheduler, but that doesn't seem to work either. I have confirmed, however, that this happens exactly once per boot. I can test it by doing something like: dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [CentOS] ext4 deadlock issue

2013-03-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/30/2013 06:33 AM, Joakim Ziegler wrote: On one of the partitions on the RAID. It'll run for a little while, then pause when the file is always exactly 9913094144 bytes (this is close enough to 10% of the system RAM that I think it's hitting some sort of cache flush threshold), spit out

Re: [CentOS] ext4 deadlock issue

2013-03-30 Thread Joakim Ziegler
4GB. -- Joakim Ziegler - Supervisor de postproducción - Terminal joa...@terminalmx.com - 044 55 2971 8514 - 5264 0864 On 30/03/13 16:43, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/30/2013 06:33 AM, Joakim Ziegler wrote: On one of the partitions on the RAID. It'll run for a little while, then

[CentOS] ext4 deadlock issue

2013-03-26 Thread Joakim Ziegler
I'm having an occasional problem with a box. It's a Supermicro 16-core Xeon, running CentOS 6.3 with kernel 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64, 96 gigs of RAM, and an Areca 1882ix-24 RAID controller with 24 disks, 23 in RAID6 plus a hot spare. The RAID is divided into 3 partitions, two of 25 TB plus one

Re: [CentOS] ext4 deadlock issue

2013-03-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/26/2013 02:01 PM, Joakim Ziegler wrote: Anyone seen anything like this before? It's not very frequent, but it's very annoying. I haven't, but the first thing I'd do in the situation you describe is update the firmware on the RAID card. I looked around at other discussions of the same

Re: [CentOS] ext4 deadlock issue

2013-03-26 Thread Joakim Ziegler
Ok, will try the firmware first. I saw some talk of the scheduler, but I was uncertain if that applied in my case. By the way, doesn't the command you include switch to the noop scheduler? Shouldn't it be echo deadline? -- Joakim Ziegler - Supervisor de postproducción - Terminal

Re: [CentOS] ext4 deadlock issue

2013-03-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/26/2013 05:55 PM, Joakim Ziegler wrote: Shouldn't it be echo deadline? Yes! Copied and pasted the wrong line from docs. X( ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 deadlock issue

2013-03-26 Thread Joakim Ziegler
Thanks, just checking. :) -- Joakim Ziegler - Supervisor de postproducción - Terminal joa...@terminalmx.com - 044 55 2971 8514 - 5264 0864 On 26/03/13 19:13, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/26/2013 05:55 PM, Joakim Ziegler wrote: Shouldn't it be echo deadline? Yes! Copied and

[CentOS] EXT4-fs: Can't allocate: Allocation context details

2012-07-26 Thread Aji
Hi, I'm using centos 5.8 running as a production system, my system suddenly crash because the /var/log/kern.log have a huge file size, and make the disk full. this is the message from kern.log 2012-07-26T05:36:39.120185+02:00 NL50-ND019 kernel: EXT4-fs: Can't allocate: Allocation context

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-08-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/26/2011 3:11 AM, Andrzej Szymanski wrote: On 2011-07-25 19:10, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to new partitions? A

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread Andrzej Szymanski
On 2011-07-25 19:10, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to new partitions? A resize + a dd copy to shift the position might be

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread John Doe
From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com thats by cylinder, which is an old MSDOS legacy thing.  I believe parted and probably some other programs let you partition by sector instead. In my kickstart pre script, I use: ... | sfdisk -H $HEADS -S $SECTORS -uS --force -L $DEVICE For SSDs, I saw

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 05:21:58 AM John Doe wrote: From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com thats by cylinder, which is an old MSDOS legacy thing. I believe parted and probably some other programs let you partition by sector instead. In my kickstart pre script, I use: ... | sfdisk -H

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/26/2011 3:11 AM, Andrzej Szymanski wrote: On 2011-07-25 19:10, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to new partitions? A

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/26/2011 03:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Thank you! That seems to have worked, but now I'm curious as to why the partition on the old drives didn't go to the end of the disk - which I had expected would have left no extra room. Was the dos style rounding computing the end of a cylinder

[CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
I've mentioned this problem before but put off doing anything about it and maybe now someone can suggest the best solution. I have a 3-member RAID1 set where one of the members is periodically swapped and rotated offsite. The filesystem contains a backuppc archive which has millions of

[CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to new partitions? A resize + a dd copy to shift the position might

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 13:23 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to new

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread m . roth
John Austin wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 13:23 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Devin Reade
--On Monday, July 25, 2011 01:56:38 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I think it was when I was building a 6.0 box a couple weeks ago, but I'd partition, it would do an mkfs... and *then* tell me it wasn't aligned, and I played with it several times, and it absolutely would NOT align it, nor

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread m . roth
Devin Reade wrote: --On Monday, July 25, 2011 01:56:38 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I think it was when I was building a 6.0 box a couple weeks ago, but I'd partition, it would do an mkfs... and *then* tell me it wasn't aligned, and I played with it several times, and it absolutely would

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Devin Reade
--On Monday, July 25, 2011 02:19:16 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: No joy - I think I have to use parted - the drive was too big for fdisk. I should have mentioned that this was with 1.5TB disks. I think there's a limit somewhere beyond 2TB for fdisk. Devin

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I've mentioned this problem before but put off doing anything about it and maybe now someone can suggest the best solution. I have a 3-member RAID1 set where one of the members is periodically swapped and rotated

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 1:42 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I've wondered many times, though haven't tried it, if the issues with hard links and backuppc could be solved by using a container file with a loopback mount, and then that file could be moved around as needed without running into hard-link issues.

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On 7/25/2011 1:42 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I've wondered many times, though haven't tried it, if the issues with hard links and backuppc could be solved by using a container file with a loopback mount, and then that file could be moved around as needed without running into hard-link issues.

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 4:05 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: On 7/25/2011 1:42 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I've wondered many times, though haven't tried it, if the issues with hard links and backuppc could be solved by using a container file with a loopback mount, and then that file could be moved around as needed

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/25/11 2:17 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: The disk I want to add is the same size as the existing disks if expressed in 512 byte sectors - and they have one partition taking all of the disk space. If I add a leading offset to get the 4k alignment, there won't be enough room for the existing

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 4:26 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 07/25/11 2:17 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: The disk I want to add is the same size as the existing disks if expressed in 512 byte sectors - and they have one partition taking all of the disk space. If I add a leading offset to get the 4k alignment,

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/25/11 2:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes where is your existing partition starting? if its on a track or cylinder boundary... then sure, you can move it forward by using something that will let you

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 5:33 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 07/25/11 2:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes where is your existing partition starting? if its on a track or cylinder boundary... then sure, you can move it

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/25/11 3:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdh1 1 91201 732572001 fd Linux raid autodetect It doesn't need to boot. And the 3rd member doesn't need to autodetect, although I do want to be able to mount it

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Nataraj
On 07/25/2011 10:10 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: I've mentioned this problem before but put off doing anything about it and maybe now someone can suggest the best solution. I have a 3-member RAID1 set where one of the members is periodically swapped and rotated offsite. The filesystem contains

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-22 Thread Matt
And be careful to leave boot partition on ext3. Why is that? Also, does the 5.6 install dvd offer ext4 in the graphical install? Last time I do not think I saw it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 23.07.2011 00:16, schrieb Matt: And be careful to leave boot partition on ext3. Why is that? Also, does the 5.6 install dvd offer ext4 in the graphical install? Last time I do not think I saw it. grub shipping with 5.6 can not boot from ext4 formatted partitions.

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:17 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 07/05/11 9:04 PM, Charles Polisher wrote: The PostgreSQL wiki seems to say that database tables are allocated in 1GB extents. In workloads with which I am familiar, with an RDBMS the extents don't bounce around all

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi Everyone, I just tried to install EXT4 onto a CentOS 5 machine but it failed. Does anyone know in which repository it is? root@usaxen01:[~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5 (Final) root@usaxen01:[~]$ uname -a Linux usaxen01 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5xen #1 SMP

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Charles Polisher cpol...@surewest.netwrote: If you're running a database on it, you might re-think using a journaled filesystem. For that, ext2 will be faster and much less prone to unrecoverable data loss. Did you mean EXT4, or in actual fact EXT2? I thought

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread James Hogarth
If you're running a database on it, you might re-think using a journaled filesystem. For that, ext2 will be faster and much less prone to unrecoverable data loss. Did you mean EXT4, or in actual fact EXT2? I thought EXT4 was faster than EXT2? The optimum on an EXT basis for a filesystem

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 07:28 PM, James Hogarth wrote: If you're running a database on it, you might re-think using a journaled filesystem. For that, ext2 will be faster and much less prone to unrecoverable data loss. Did you mean EXT4, or in actual fact EXT2? I thought EXT4 was faster

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/5/11 6:28 AM, James Hogarth wrote: If you're running a database on it, you might re-think using a journaled filesystem. For that, ext2 will be faster and much less prone to unrecoverable data loss. Did you mean EXT4, or in actual fact EXT2? I thought EXT4 was faster than EXT2? The

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Charles Polisher
Christopher Chan wrote: James Hogarth wrote: If you're running a database on it, you might re-think using a journaled filesystem. For that, ext2 will be faster and much less prone to unrecoverable data loss. Did you mean EXT4, or in actual fact EXT2? I thought EXT4 was faster than

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Charles Polisher cpol...@surewest.netwrote: (I'm sharpening my axe for the Use ZFS, it's bulletproof discussion.) -- Charles Polisher ___ HAHA, what's your take on ZFS then? We've been running ZFS on a few

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:26 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: (I'm sharpening my axe for the Use ZFS, it's bulletproof discussion.) /me puts on asbestos suit...stares...switches to asbestos armor instead. HAHA, what's your take on ZFS then? We've been running ZFS on a few storage servers,

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/05/11 7:10 AM, Charles Polisher wrote: In general and with some simplifiying assumptions, a database consists of statically pre-allocated files. The process of extending the files happens at birth. The relative speed over the lifetime of the database is dominated by raw I/O, not by

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: We've been running ZFS on a few storage servers, both in the office and for our hosting clients for about 2 years now and all I can say it that it's rock solid. +1 Although I have seen screams from

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/5/2011 1:06 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: /me wonders what an md raid array with an ext3 fs that has its journal on an ssd in full data journal mode give in terms of performance. I honestly haven't tried this yet, probably cause when I looked at how this works, it's only the journal which runs

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: How much can that matter?  Reads are going to be cached in main RAM anyway - which is pretty cheap these days. --    Les Mikesell     lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ Yes, but

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/5/2011 1:30 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: How much can that matter? Reads are going to be cached in main RAM anyway - which is pretty cheap these days. Yes, but I suppose it all depends on the needs of the server in

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/5/2011 1:30 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: How much can that matter? Reads are going to be cached in main RAM anyway - which is pretty cheap

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread Charles Polisher
On 07/05/11 7:10 AM, Charles Polisher wrote: In general and with some simplifiying assumptions, a database consists of statically pre-allocated files. The process of extending the files happens at birth. The relative speed over the lifetime of the database is dominated by raw I/O, not by

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/05/11 9:04 PM, Charles Polisher wrote: The PostgreSQL wiki seems to say that database tables are allocated in 1GB extents. In workloads with which I am familiar, with an RDBMS the extents don't bounce around all that much, i.e. the vast majority of writes do not result in a change to

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-04 Thread Charles Polisher
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:04:34PM -0700, PJ wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 22:41:50 PJ wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:31 PM, PJ pauljer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Marian Marinov

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-24 Thread Alain Péan
Le 24/06/2011 03:44, Marian Marinov a écrit : On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's used as scratch space so not too concerned about

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-24 Thread Lucian
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Alain Péan alain.p...@lpp.polytechnique.fr wrote: Le 24/06/2011 03:44, Marian Marinov a écrit : On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's used as scratch space so not

[CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread PJ
I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be re-assured that there are not currently any major issues before starting a new project that looks like it will be using ext4. I've previously been using xfs but the software for this project requires ext3/ext4. I'm always

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread Marian Marinov
On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:37 PJ wrote: I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be re-assured that there are not currently any major issues before starting a new project that looks like it will be using ext4. I've previously been using xfs but the software for

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread nux
PJ writes: I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be re-assured that there are not currently any major issues before starting a new project that looks like it will be using ext4. I've previously been using xfs but the software for this project requires

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread Geoff Galitz
Just another happy camper here. We have ext4 for some high-volume servers and have experienced no operational problems. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread PJ
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:37 PJ wrote: I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be re-assured that there are not currently any major issues before starting a new project that looks like it will

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread PJ
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:31 PM, PJ pauljer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:37 PJ wrote: I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be re-assured that there are not currently any

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread Marian Marinov
On Thursday 23 June 2011 22:31:28 PJ wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:37 PJ wrote: I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be re-assured that there are not currently any major issues before

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread Marian Marinov
On Thursday 23 June 2011 22:41:50 PJ wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:31 PM, PJ pauljer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:37 PJ wrote: I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread PJ
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 22:41:50 PJ wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:31 PM, PJ pauljer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:37 PJ wrote:

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread James Chamberlain
On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:16 PM, PJ wrote: I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be re-assured that there are not currently any major issues before starting a new project that looks like it will be using ext4. I've previously been using xfs but the software for

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread Thomas Harold
On 6/23/2011 12:16 PM, PJ wrote: I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be re-assured that there are not currently any major issues before starting a new project that looks like it will be using ext4. I've previously been using xfs but the software for this

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread Smithies, Russell
...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Marian Marinov Sent: Friday, 24 June 2011 7:48 a.m. To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6? On Thursday 23 June 2011 22:31:28 PJ wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread Marian Marinov
On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's used as scratch space so not too concerned about performance. --Russell I have compared the

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/23/11 8:44 PM, Marian Marinov wrote: I have compared the performance of both XFS and Ext4. And since I use those big machines for backups, for me the write performance was very important. XFS was almost twice slower. Twice slower? At what kind of operations? I don't think any filesystem

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Phil Schaffner Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 3:55 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda? S.Tindall wrote on 04/10/2011 01:46 PM: Just boot the installer

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Phil Schaffner Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 3:55 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda? S.Tindall wrote on 04/10/2011 01:46 PM: Just boot the installer

[CentOS] ext4 not on a bootable partition

2011-04-11 Thread Jerry Geis
Just tried running a configuration on 5.6 with ext4 as the / partitition. I got the error that cannot boot ext4 partition. bummer I know this is just a boot issue and make the ext3 but I was disappointed. Maybe 6.0 will have ext4 bootable. jerry

Re: [CentOS] ext4 not on a bootable partition

2011-04-11 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: Just tried running a configuration on 5.6 with ext4 as the / partitition. I got the error that cannot boot ext4 partition. bummer I know this is just a boot issue and make the ext3 but I was disappointed. Maybe 6.0

Re: [CentOS] ext4 not on a bootable partition

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Just tried running a configuration on 5.6 with ext4 as the / partitition. I got the error that cannot boot ext4 partition. bummer I know this is just a boot issue and make the ext3 but I was disappointed. Maybe 6.0 will have ext4 bootable. I installed

Re: [CentOS] ext4 not on a bootable partition

2011-04-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/11/2011 11:04 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Just tried running a configuration on 5.6 with ext4 as the / partitition. I got the error that cannot boot ext4 partition. bummer I know this is just a boot issue and make the ext3 but I was disappointed.

[CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? I looked in release notes but only found reference to ext4 in RHEL5.6 My install is netinstall.iso 64bit release 5.6 as Virtualbox VM. Thx Rainer

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? I looked in release notes but only found reference to ext4 in RHEL5.6 From

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 10.04.2011 15:30, schrieb Tom H: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de wrote: it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? I looked in release notes but only found reference to ext4 in RHEL5.6

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: Am 10.04.2011 15:30, schrieb Tom H: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de  wrote: it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? I

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread S.Tindall
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 16:40 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: Am 10.04.2011 15:30, schrieb Tom H: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de wrote: it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? I looked in

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
S.Tindall wrote on 04/10/2011 01:46 PM: Just boot the installer with the ext4 option and anaconda will be able to format ext4, or at least that works in 5.5. Works just as well on 5.6. Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Brandon Ooi
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: S.Tindall wrote on 04/10/2011 01:46 PM: Just boot the installer with the ext4 option and anaconda will be able to format ext4, or at least that works in 5.5. Works just as well on 5.6. Sorry, this is the

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, April 11, 2011 10:53 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov mailto:philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: S.Tindall wrote on 04/10/2011 01:46 PM: Just boot the installer with the ext4 option and anaconda will be

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: block count)

2011-03-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/23/11 3:05 AM, Balaji wrote: Dear All, Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10 I don't know what is the problem and Can some one throw light on this peculiar problem Please replay me ASAP. the problem is, thats a RED HAT

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: block count)

2011-03-23 Thread Lucian
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:07 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 03/23/11 3:05 AM, Balaji wrote: Dear All, Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10 I don't know what is the problem and Can some one throw light on this

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: blockcount)

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 03/23/11 3:05 AM, Balaji wrote: Dear All, Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10 We're pretty much unable to help because yours is a RHEL6 system, we're stuck at RHEL5.5 until our team gets RHEL6 ==

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: block count)

2011-03-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Balaji balajisun...@midascomm.com wrote: Dear All, Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10 DRBD is build from source and Configured DRBD with 2 Node testing with Simplex Setup Server 1 :

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: blockcount)

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Balaji balajisun...@midascomm.com wrote: Dear All, Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10 DRBD is build from source and Configured DRBD with 2

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-30 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of cpol...@surewest.net Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 5:02 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64 Sorin Srbu wrote: snip Anyway, I get a bad block

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-28 Thread Giuseppe Tanzilli - ServerPlan
PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64 For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the stability, creation of the FS and the administration

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-28 Thread cpolish
Sorin Srbu wrote: snip Anyway, I get a bad block message when running fsck, and am not sure whether this is a interface problem between the chair and the monitor or something with the tech preview. snip Having just live through this issue, I recommend you run the extended (long) SMART

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/28/2011 10:02 AM, cpol...@surewest.net wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: snip Anyway, I get a bad block message when running fsck, and am not sure whether this is a interface problem between the chair and the monitor or something with the tech preview. snip Having just live through this

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-28 Thread cpolish
Les Mikesell wrote: Are there guidelines about what are reasonable results or will the 'Smart Health Status' tell you enough after the tests run? In a recent study[1] of a large population of hard drives these assertions stood out: [A]fter their first scan error, drives are 39 times more

[CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-27 Thread Sorin Srbu
Hi all, For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the stability, creation of the FS and the administration of it is? Ideas and comments welcome. Thanks. -- BW, Sorin

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-27 Thread James Hogarth
On 27 January 2011 15:06, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: Hi all, For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the stability, creation of the FS and the administration of it is?

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:37 PM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 January 2011 15:06, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: Hi all, For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-27 Thread compdoc
For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the stability, creation of the FS and the administration of it is? Ideas and comments welcome. I've recently been using ext4 because I have servers

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-27 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64 From: compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011 10:08:46 AM For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has

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