[7256] in testers
9.4.9 linux machines with trashed cache partitions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jul 14 08:22:48 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:22:41 -0400
Message-Id: <200507141222.j6ECMfve002741@distraction.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Something rebooted a bunch of the w20 cluster early-test linux
machines shortly after noon yesterday (they were still running 9.4.9,
mail on that soon). Almost all of them failed to come back up on
their own. The common failure was a failed fsck on the afs cache
partition, because files contain "Illegal blocks". I mkfs'd the cache
partition, since that was even easier than fsck -y and they all came
up fine. I'm a little concerned about the underlying cause, and we
should probably do a little testing on something that has updated to
9.4.10.
Oh, I left w20-575-42 broken on the off chance someone wanted to see a
trashed cache partition. I'll probably fix it in a couple of days if
no one beats me to it.
--
Jonathon
