On 22 Oct 2003, Morten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running RH9, 2.4.20-18.9. Each night, the server mounts > an external FAT32 disk using firewire, and performs backups > to it using rsync. > > Twice within the past 3 months, the backup process has resulted > in machine crash (complete hang, hardware reboot needed). > > From /var/log/messages: > > Oct 22 04:02:20 yoda kernel: Filesystem panic (dev 08:21). > Oct 22 04:02:20 yoda kernel: fat_free: deleting beyond EOF > Oct 22 04:02:20 yoda kernel: File system has been set read-only
You probably need to report this to the vfat fs maintainer VFAT FILESYSTEM: P: Gordon Chaffee M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee S: Maintained > From the rsync error log, I can see that the filesystem becomes > read-only, and that it begins to fail the synchronization task with > > mkstemp > SAGER_igangvaerende/2003_07_Fremtidens_Uni/Fase_4/Diagrammer/Celletyper/ > .Delecelle.psd.Rz49bM failed: Read-only file system > > Which is understandable. After doing this for a while, the error > message changes to "Too many open files". And I suspect that this is > what causes the machine to hang. Can you please try to reproduce the problem, and then do lsof -p PID_OF_RSYNC for each rsync process sometime before it starts complaining about too many open files. Then kill rsync to avoid the problem. > Is there any way to configure rsync to abort execution once the > first error occurs? Not at the moment. -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
