EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3?

[Faehl, Chris]

What are you using to perform backups? We're running PowerEdge 1750s,
2650s, and 6650s using RHEL 3 ES rather than WS, and have not seen this
issue using Veritas NetBackup. Are you using any ext3 options on root?
It sounds like you're experiencing a batch of bad RAID cards (or as
Marvin indicated, maybe a bad batch of disks?)

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Chris Faehl
Hosting Manager, RightNow Technologies

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Marvin Blackburn
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:05 AM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: RE: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3?


We have had some strange problems during backups also.
The file system starts reporting errors and the system hangs.  
A reboot fixes this.

We have had this problem on 2 dell 2650's.  There answer was to replace 
All the disks in the system with another make.

They really don't have a clue as to what is happening.

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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Halligan
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:21 PM
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> Subject: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3?
> 
> I've had about three servers in the past week lose their root 
> partitions during nightly backup.. It only loses the root 
> partition, and it's rather strange. It doesn't necessarily 
> lose the data in the root partition, but it might as well, 
> since fsck ends up deleting all the inodes.  These are all 
> Dell PowerEdge 1750s with two mirrored 36GB scsi drives on 
> Dell's Perc/4I card. 
>  
> I've given up trying to figure out who to talk to at dell for 
> the worthless support we purchased on these was hoping maybe 
> somebody else was  running into this? I've dug through ERRATA 
> and haven't seen any
> ext3 bugs, but at this point I'm unsure what to do.  The 
> hardware seems fine, but I won't rule out the possibility 
> that these raid cards suck.
>  
> Michael T. Halligan
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