RHEL 3 on VMware chrashed, resulting in "directory contains a hole" messages

[Josh Miller]

Kenneth Holter wrote:
> One of our RHEL 3 servers (it's scheduled to be replaced withing weeks) just
> crashed, and I could use some advice on how to get it up and running.
> 
> It's running as an Vmware ESX 3.5 guest, and chrashed when I removed a
> snapshot earlier today. If I understand correctly it lost contact with the
> virtual disks or something of that kind, resulting in this type of message
> in syslog:
> 
> 
> * kernel: EXT3-fs error (device lvm(58,0)): ext3_readdir: directory
> #1724801 contains a hole at offset 3014656

How exactly did you remove the snapshot?


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Josh Miller, RHCE/VCP
Seattle, WA
Linux Solutions Provider
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