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Re: 9.4.9 linux machines with trashed cache partitions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jul 14 09:13:32 2005
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:22:41 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:13:20 -0400
>
> 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.
Interestingly I just found a case of this (although I believe it to be
a more mild one) on a 9.3 linux machine (w20-575-122).
Jonathon
