Problems under Redhat EL3 and ext3

[Ulf Zimmermann]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext3-users-bounces at redhat.com
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> On Behalf Of Ulf Zimmermann
> Sent: 07/20/2006 12:07 PM
> To: Theodore Tso
> Cc: Andreas Dilger; ext3-users at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Problems under Redhat EL3 and ext3
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Theodore Tso [mailto:tytso at mit.edu]
> > Sent: 07/20/2006 11:25 AM
> > To: Ulf Zimmermann
> > Cc: Andreas Dilger; ext3-users at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: Problems under Redhat EL3 and ext3
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:24:41AM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> > > The filesystem was created under EL3. I am currently copying
> everything
> > > in the new structure into a new directory and it seems to be fast.
> My
> > > plan at this point is to rename the hard linked new structure at
the
> > > end, and use that copy. I did run on one of the nodes e2fsck -D
but
> that
> > > did not help.
> >
> > e2fsck -D, or e2fsck -fD?  You need the -f option in order to force
> > e2fsck to scan the whole filesystem and optimize all filesystems.
> >
> > 						- Ted
> 
> On the one node I did, it was -D, which did do a force checked, but
not
> because I specified -f, but because the file system hadn't been
checked
> in > 192 days.
> 
> Ulf.

The one other thing I hadn't answered before, each directory has on
average 1,293 files, deviation of less then 100 each direction. In the
old structure some directories had over 50,000 files and it didn't seem
to slow it down. Dir_index was not enabled on the systems, so I enabled
it on one node, waiting for something to finish before I can unmount it
and run e2fsck -fD on it.

Ulf.