From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 01:37:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C4816A41C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:37:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D3B43D49 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:37:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [10.11.36.231] ([145.253.106.162]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5K1fCos049893; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:41:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <42B61DCD.4030307@samsco.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:37:17 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050615 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: emartinez@crockettint.com References: <20050617211305.6E04A33F81@mxc1.crockettint.com> In-Reply-To: <20050617211305.6E04A33F81@mxc1.crockettint.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UFS2+Softupdates Corruption Regardless on Seven various systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:37:30 -0000 Edgar Martinez wrote: > All, > > > > I have a network of FBSD boxen running 5.3 w/ 2x PATA WD1200JB Drives and a > Promise Fastrack TX2 controller in mirror. The systems mainly just pass > internet traffic and rarely ever touch the disks. After running for a few > weeks -> months.the disks become corrupted forcing a manual fsck from single > user mode. And since the system is thousands of miles away, it can become > painful to walk someone with a language barrier thru that. > > > > Question is WHY does this occur? > > How can you avoid this? > > What can you do to remotely fix the issue? > > Any proactive maintenance I need to be doing? > > Did I mention I would like to know WHY? > This certainly sounds like a bug, and is not something that people normally see. When and how do you notice the corruption? Does it have a particular pattern? Would it be possible to try a different brand of disk controller in order to rule out the driver being buggy? Scott