[7257] in testers
Re: 9.4.9 linux machines with trashed cache partitions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Thu Jul 14 08:33:13 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:33:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> 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.
I needed to do this every time I rebooted as a result of a kernel oops.
Whether that's not supposed to happen, I don't know, of course.
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
