[DRBD-user] filesystem corruptions

Poyner, Brandon bpoyner at ccac.edu
Mon Oct 3 14:47:37 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


In addition I would run memtest86 for a few iterations.  I know it
sounds funny to do a RAM check but I've seen some weird behavior that
could be tracked down to memory problems.  

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: drbd-user-bounces at linbit.com 
> [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at linbit.com] On Behalf Of Matthias Weigel
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:27 AM
> To: drbd-user at linbit.com
> Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] filesystem corruptions
> 
> Hello Bro,
> 
> two suggestions:
> 1. I once had weird problems with SATA drives that went away when i 
> upgraded the systems BIOS. Sometimes drives also have a upgradable 
> firmware. So look out for BIOS and drive firmware updates.
> 
> 2. I would try to eliminate DRBD as a cause of your problems: 
> Create a 
> filesystem directly on your SATA drives, without DRBD. Then 
> do a stress 
> test on it, e.g. use bonnie. If errors show up, you know it 
> is not DRBD.
> 
> Hope this is helpful.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> bro wrote:
> 
> -snip-
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for the ideas, ive been testing the underlying with 
> `badblocks 
> > -sw /dev/sdb1` and `sdc1` all weekend long, and havent 
> found nothing at 
> > all.
> > About that SATA thing - that's true, ive got two sata 
> devices on which 
> > drbd resides, so i pressume that there aint problems with 
> connectors, 
> > and corrosion is the second thing we can exclude from 
> problem causers ;)
> > Actually it seems like some weird HW problem, cuz the 
> secondary node is 
> > running fine for about 4 days w/o problems instead of the 
> primary which 
> > crashed 8h after bootup.
> > Any ideas and thoughts about this will be greatly appreciated ;)
> 
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