On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 04:04, Guy Zelck wrote: > > You obviously haven't followed my lead : read the 'w > ich is better choice ext3 or ...' thread. A lot of detail is in there. > I can reproduce it any time by just doing un unclean shutdown or when I have to when >the system hangs. But maybe it has something to do with my SCSI card which is not >100%. I'm getting closer. > > Guy.
I should have mentioned I read the thread. We have had problems on machines that shutdown cleanly.... Files end up with null's in them instead of data. I can reproduce the error on basically any of our machines (around 20 Dell machines with onboard scsi). The problem never comes up with other FS's. (well, at least ext2) On very heavily loaded machines we've had entire directories disappear. Running any of the xfs tools does not restore missing directories or fix files that are full of null characters. If anyone would like instructions on how we trigger the problem about 30% of the time (for null characters), I can give detailed instructions and some scripts. It would be nice to have this resolved. We've had to switch back to ext2 since the problems were discovered. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
