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Subject:    Re: [SLE] LVM, reiserfs and NFS
From:       Richard Bos <allabos () freeler ! nl>
Date:       2003-01-06 23:07:54
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It's related:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/printfriendly?AT=2000034960-20270972

Op maandag 6 januari 2003 09:08, schreef Derek Fountain:
> On Monday 06 January 2003 06:30, Rohit wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Derek Fountain wrote:
> > > it via NFS. While writing a few gigs of data to it from another
> > > machine, it's falling about all over the place. The logs are full of
> > > errors from reiserfs and encouragements to run fsck.
> >
> > Just make sure that one file is not more than 2G in size, ever. That is
> > an NFS limitation methinks... if individual files are not that big, then
> > there should be no problem. NFS and reiserfs are matured technologies and
> > so is LVM - so I think the problem may lie somewhere else.
> >
> > Post the log-error when it started. The very first messages - may be the
> > first 10-20 of them.
>
> I don't think posting dozens of errors will help much. Here's what I see:
> the problems started off with a few dozen "bit already cleared" errors from
> reiserfs, then it had a load of tree/node problems. Then it got an I/O
> error, and it all went south from there. On reboot, the LVM vgscan can't
> read the LV details from the physical volumes. All appears to suggest that
> the LVM layer went completely bananas.
>
> I'm using the kernel level NFS server. I wonder if the user level one would
> be any better. Perhaps there's something messy in that interaction.

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Richard Bos
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