What's the error message? What commands get you the error (analyze.file doesn't, so it's not completely hosed).
Generally, a broken file occurs when one of two things occur (these are just the most frequent; there are other ways): a write to overflow (and you got overflow!) begins, writes the forward link, then doesn't complete in writing the backward link (blink error). Perhaps it got distracted by a particularly fetching barista <g>. Looking at errpt is a good idea for you; if there's a hardware problem causing it, you wanna catch it asap. This is one reason we like to avoid overflow: your risk of breaking a file increases with each link to overflow created. The second most likely cause is when something else is writing to your file; maybe there are uv jobs running out of cron that update something, but aren't in phantom & you use commons to open files. Perhaps there is some sequential write occurring to the file. Anyway, start by resizing that to reduce the overflow & therefore your risk. I'd at least double the mod, and at a rough pass, I'd say 2.5 times that mod would be a good guess - I often find that a well-sized file will have physical bytes to data bytes in a 2:1 ratio. The mod*sep*512 on this file is about 6g. > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:14:37 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Subject: [U2] Re: Damaged files> > I'm sure someone will ask, so here is the FILE.STAT of our damaged file:> > >FILE.STAT ...> File name = [removed]> File type = 18> Number of groups in file (modulo) = 1464863> Separation = 8> Number of records = 4494202> Number of physical bytes = 11519762432> Number of data bytes = 8015319848> > Average number of records per group = 3.0680> Average number of bytes per group = 5471.7198> Minimum number of records in a group = 0> Maximum number of records in a group = 8> > Average number of bytes per record = 1783.4801> Minimum number of bytes in a record = 32> Maximum number of bytes in a record = 3138752> > Average number of fields per record = 146.2144> Minimum number of fields per record = 1> Maximum number of fields per record = 5707> > Groups 25% 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% full> 72507 139475 227723 274491 215462 150922 103011 281272> > -- Louie> -------> u2-users mailing list> u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ _________________________________________________________________ Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic. http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=164&ocid=T003MSN51N1653 A ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
