Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:31:07 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: /var ufs failed strangely on 2.2.2 with 2940UW Message-ID: <347BEC5B.4D073D13@tdx.co.uk>
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Hi, I'm running BSD 2.2.2-RELEASE on an AST Premmia GX/90 (P90 with 64Mb RAM) - it's using a 2940UW controller with 1 Quantum 'Atlas-II' UltraWide drive... Our filesystem has a seperate mount point for '/var' - being a 2gb partition (we do a lot of mail processing, and on a 9gb drive ;-) A couple of days ago all our admin scripts failed overnight, the following day - going into the '/var/log' directory revealed 1 file - 'apache_access.log', and no others... Fearing the worse (some hacker panicing and trying to remove the logs) - I started to look through the system. Things like syslogd were still running - and still apprently happily logging to /var/adm/messages (even though the file appeared not to exist) - but doing something like a 'touch /var/log/test' - wouldn't error - but wouldn't create the file either?. In the end I decided to run the system up in single user, and fsck the /var filesystem. This worked (I ended up with a lost+found directory with all the files in it in the usual #xxxxxxx format) - fsck found about 20 - 30 problems (mostly unlinked dir's, truncated files etc.) - and I did manage to get everything back - without going to the backup tapes. Has anyone seen anything like this before? - Before downing the system everything was working (i.e. syslogd, apache etc.) - were all running & logging, but the FS was obviously not in too good a state... I've now compiled in the aic7870.c driver (1.54 I beleive, from 2.2.5) into our 2.2.2 system (We've had this running on our dev box for about a month or so) - in some vain attempt at ensuring it's not the 2940... We have 4 BSD machines at the moment (3 with 2940UW's in similar configurations) - the oldest is about 1yr - but this is the first time this has happened... I'm not _really_ interested in reporting it as a bug, I'm just concerned if anyone has seen anything similar, etc... Regards, Karl Pielorz
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