From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 10:01:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F35106564A for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:01:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from faust64@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4CD8FC22 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 10:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so1082566qyk.13 for ; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:01:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=MLFquMGhviHZQEMCDa9qq/ht9Q7A9sCm84CdNnwHaXw=; b=DNg0kH5LSjSbLeI+yfjDJz0B34YxP0pB/caQnB3CAYzYSW7KVqkeK2JWLiFVf+K3xd mB/HLobfyZP/ZNKyLb4acoWFu+JhrqKjT0VCohCjWZmOp+mDhpvO1316tVIrVFr8hkUD y7UVrCOkS+Ch5IeQSRihWx7QI+WykYbLiRTyo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=P9rEnHeUbZ3p6WJy/6bEtw+Qdr6yAgW0Br6Kv2gb0GiN2YgUVM+sHGK7neG/u2uAjn mJVrs03sOPtQMa6DvttZPSR+zeWnCbAR9lyOIWNb4zeyJgTiDiG+3Hs1GHpCyiij3GYd HVQihFzjTpG3F4xFKO8o7f9YJecQbiYvVp3z0= Received: by 10.224.211.5 with SMTP id gm5mr3687897qab.130.1289210511676; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:01:51 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.188.68 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 02:01:11 -0800 (PST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_Mart=EDn_Moro?= Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:01:11 +0100 Message-ID: To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: UFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:01:53 -0000 Hi, We have a problem with a few of our users. And I'm a bit speechless since I understood what are our commercials doing... Whatever... We are providing a pre-configured FreeBSD distribution, for videosurveillance prupose. It seems the machines sold with our distribution may come with at max 44TB RAID space. And more likely, all the RAID space is allocated in an only partition (UFS)= . Note that these servers includes only 2GB of RAM. So, since a few, custommers are calling, telling us that there's a problem with their RAID space. As far as I know, all these users are running our FreeBSD-6.2 based version= . They try to run fsck, wait .... and eventually fsck stops, saying it can't do anything (I haven't the exact error message...). My boss came, and asked me wether I think upgrading these custommers to our 7.2 based version would fix that. I told him I'm not up to date about that kind of info. But more likely, UFS/fsck worked fine in 6.2, no way there's such a big change in 7 branch. In my opinion, the only chance to get back the data would be to plug an additional drive, make a huge swap file... Knowing that context switching, on such an amount of RAM ... that would at least take days. In doubt: am I missing something? Is there an easier way? Regards, --=20 Samuel Mart=EDn Moro {EPITECH.} tek5 CamTrace S.A.S (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 1 All=E9e de la Venelle 92150 Suresnes FRANCE "Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ..." Xorg.conf(5)