On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:43, Jens Benecke wrote: > Chris Mason wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 08:51, Jens Benecke wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I posted earlier about quota problems. WE updated to 2.4.23 b ecause of > >> the logging patches because some power failures made our /home partition > >> spew out these: (QUESTIONS at the end of the mail) > > > > Sorry, before we got to the questions, what was the order of the events > > above? > > Oops. I guess I was a bit too confused myself. :) > > 1. Errors on /home in syslog, cron jobs running wild with i/o failures > system kept running for a couple days because nobody was there > to fix it, though > Those errors were probably caused by power outages and > a non-data-logging ReiserFS kernel. > 2. Backup what's left of /home to firewire harddisk. > 3. Update to 2.4.23 with Chris' patches for data logging/quota > 4. Repartition hda2..4 (was needed anyway for drbd), > reformat new /home (drbd), restore /home on drbd device > 5. crash of the server overnight, reboot (don't know why yet)
Ok, we need to better understand step 5 here. > 6. couldn't reboot because root partition was totally b0rken > 7. reiserfsck --rebuild-tree under Knoppix, killed a couple files > 8. still running Knoppix, secondary server took over and is running now > > btw: Is there a "reiserfs stress test" kind of thing to make sure a > configuration works before sending it two time zones away for production? I > plan on doing that in the next couple weeks. =;) > Would bonnie++ accomplish this or are there better tests? The best test is whatever that environment is going to use in production. I've got a ton of different scripts that get used based on different situations, most are ugly hacks. -chris
