From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 18 15:14:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F2E37B417 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:14:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBINE6422470; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:14:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:14:06 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Funked up filesystem Message-ID: <20011218231406.GA31631@dan.emsphone.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011218141238.02a0ee38@mail.cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011218141238.02a0ee38@mail.cpl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 18), Shawn Ramsey said: > We have an external SCSI box of disks, connected to a PCI RAID > adapter... the cable connecting to the server was accidently > disconnected, which caused the server to crash. (which probably > shouldn't have happened either being on a RAID controller) But after > rebooting, one of the file systems in that box was real screwed up, > with the root directory consisting of lost+found, with directories > underneath being named something like > > #0142869 #0365086 #0611086 > > This is the first time I've ever seen a non bad hardware related file > system problem... Should doing what I did have caused this? The SCSI > box is connected to a Mylex ExtremeRaid 1100, if it matters... From the point of view of the server, it was bad hardware. The drives suddenly disppeared :) The problem was probably compounded by the fact that the OS itself didn't lose the drives; the raid controller did, so any cached data on the controller was lost. That's probably why you ended up with messed up directories. I've done the same thing to an Adaptec ASR 3200 connected to external SCSI disks. Internal RAID cards can handle a single disk failure easy enough, but when they all disappear at once I don't think they can recover. Moral: Screw your scsi cables down tight. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message