Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-11 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, He also has a login on the machine for testing but it's turned off at the moment I'll turn it on again if he asks. I've already sent him a mail. BTW, is a simple login (I mean, for example ssh) enough for this task? I would think at least a serial console access is needed... --[

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, He also has a login on the machine for testing but it's turned off at the moment I'll turn it on again if he asks. I've already sent him a mail. BTW, is a simple login (I mean, for example ssh) enough for this task? I would think at least

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I'll try to reproduce the thing on my machine as soon as possible. Perhaps it was just because it was Monday, who knows... Meanwhile I found out that my problem is 100% reproducible. Since then, I contacted Kirk McKusick, who told me that he will investigate this issue. I also gave

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, I'll try to reproduce the thing on my machine as soon as possible. Perhaps it was just because it was Monday, who knows... Meanwhile I found out that my problem is 100% reproducible. Since then, I contacted Kirk McKusick, who told me

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I also gave him access to our machine, which has a 1.2 TB filesystem on it. I have a 1.9TB FS about 4 km from him.. That's great! Could you please contact him? (do you also have this problem, BTW?) Thanks, --[ Free Software ISOs - http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download ]--

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, I also gave him access to our machine, which has a 1.2 TB filesystem on it. I have a 1.9TB FS about 4 km from him.. That's great! Could you please contact him? (do you also have this problem, BTW?) He also has a login on the machine

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-09 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: I've been trying to reproduce this bug on my desktop. This machine has 2 80gb disks, one of which is dedicated with one slice. So far, after 8 hard resets, I haven't had any problem with either the machine or bgfsck hanging.

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-09 Thread phk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q? K=FChn?= writes: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: I've been trying to reproduce this bug on my desktop. This machine has 2 80gb disks, one of which is dedicated with one slice. So far, after 8 hard resets, I

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-30 Thread Ryan Dooley
Just try to fsck 1.2 TB and you will be very-very patient :) Very patient indeed. I've got a 1.0TB partition about 51% full. It's still a 4-STABLE system and the last fsck from a crash last Friday (bad IBM, bad, no soup for you) took just about 55 minutes to fsck. *ugh* I'm torture testing

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-30 Thread Ryan Dooley
Dropping the number of inodes really helps fsck time; what does df -i /bigfilesystem print? fs# df -i /users Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iusedifree %iused Mounted on /dev/da2s1e 999089944 457994296 46116845650% 6094282 25170996 19% /users fsize = 8192, bsize

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 30), Ryan Dooley said: Just try to fsck 1.2 TB and you will be very-very patient :) Very patient indeed. I've got a 1.0TB partition about 51% full. It's still a 4-STABLE system and the last fsck from a crash last Friday (bad IBM, bad, no soup for you) took just

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some torture-testing. When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back quickly and bg fsck worked fine, except for one. I had created a large (50GB) /export

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Attila Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some torture-testing. When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back quickly and bg

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some torture-testing. When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back quickly and bg fsck worked fine,

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, 47105 seems to be slightly different from what I saw, because my machine never paniced; the fsck just hung forever. It depends. My machine hangs, there's no panic. I've already written to Kirk McKusick, but it seems that he has a lot of work, because I didn't get answer. Ok, then

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Vallo Kallaste wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:44:03AM +0100, Attila Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some torture-testing. When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded fsck I experienced the following

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: I don't see it listed in 5.0-RELEASE ERRATA. Several people have now reported problems with background fsck and in the case Kirk as original author is loaded with other work I see no justification to not mention the brokenness of bgfsck.

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:22:10PM -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: I've been trying to reproduce this bug on my desktop. This machine has 2 80gb disks, one of which is dedicated with one slice. So far, after 8 hard resets, I haven't had any problem with either the machine or bgfsck

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:23:08PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: 47105 seems to be slightly different from what I saw, because my machine never paniced; the fsck just hung forever. It depends. My machine hangs, there's no panic. Yes, I overlooked that in the PR when I read it first. Mine was

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:34:25PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: Following reports of problems with bgfsck during the 5.0-RC series, and prior to the release, I spent some time adding hard disks to machines, resetting without clean shutdowns, and then interrupting background fscks, piles of

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I really don't know. I have a SV25 barebone system from Shuttle (VIA Twister Chipset) and an IBM deskstar 80GB IDE HD. Does that sound familiar to you? Nope, mine is completely different. It is a HP tc4100 (I think it has an Intel MOBO, but I'm not sure) with an AHA-2940 controller and

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:34:25PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: Following reports of problems with bgfsck during the 5.0-RC series, and prior to the release, I spent some time adding hard disks to machines, resetting without clean shutdowns, and

Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-01-27 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, I've just installed my first 5.0-rel system and did some torture-testing. When resetting the machine to test the backgrounded fsck I experienced the following problem: All filesystems came back quickly and bg fsck worked fine, except for one. I had created a large (50GB) /export