..but this one isn't SBS's fault! A cautionary tale, not related to bug 16613:
For the past year or so, on occasion, I've found that SBS hasn't been able to complete a wipecache scan of my library. Unlike the symptoms in bug 16613, in this case the scanning fault would hang the whole server. The server wouldn't even respond to a ping and I would have no choice but to power-cycle the machine. On my Fedora 12 box, this would happen occasionally, like 1 time in 5. Earlier this week, I regrooved that box with Ubuntu server 10.04LTS. After getting everything configured, I had 7.6 attempt a scan of my music library, which lives on a 2T seagate drive formatted NTFS. No dice. Now, the scanner hung the system on *every* attempt to scan the library. What to do? I yanked the audio drive and connected it to my Win7 box and ran a chkdsk on it. No problems with the drive...no errors, none. I even spent a day running the check with the "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" option. Again, not a single error was reported. Returning the drive to the ubuntu server, SBS still couldn't complete the scan without the server hanging. Back to the Win7 box went the audio drive. This time I performed a Disk Defragmenter analysis on the drive. It reported back less than 1% fragmentation. I went ahead and defragmented the drive anyway. Now, with the audio drive back in the ubuntu box, SBS's scanner completed the scan perfectly. No hiccups at all. So: what can we conclude here? Is there, in fact, a fault with the drive that chkdsk fails to find, but because the defragmentator moved a file while consolidating it, the fault isn't triggered now? Or is this instead a ntfs-3g driver bug? In any event, this clearly had nothing to do with SBS. Moral: linux OS + ntfs-3g system hangs on scanning? Try defragging the ntfs drive when connected to a windows system. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84131 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
