any unusual inode problems with 4.9-RELEASE?

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:33:53AM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:10:42 -0700
> Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:17:40PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:13:04 -0700
> > > Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 	For the past few days I'm seeing serious inode problems 
> > > > 	on my 40G drive.  Has anybody seen unusual troubles with
> > > > 	inodes on FreeBSD-4.9-RELEASE?  If not, maybe I'd better
> > > > 	get a second drive and dd over?  I was running 4.9-STABLE 
> > > > 	prev, and didn't see any major problems.    
> > > 
> > > Could you give some details ?
> > 
> > 
> > 		At leas twice my 4.9-RELEASE has died and upon
> > 		trying to reboot, I've gotten stalled and thrown
> > 		into single-user mode and asked to fsck by-hand.
> 
> Giving up buffers, printing something useful or ? Grepping logs disk
> problems shows something ?


	Nothing.  This server has been busy recently--load averages
	> 5.00 sometimes.  But the strength of FBSD is that it is
	designed for heavy use.  


> 
> [..]
>  
> > > > 	Suggestions?  Do I have to create one huge slight filesystem,
> > > > 	mount it and dd or what?  
> > > 
> > > If your asking how to use dd for moving your data to another (bigger)
> > > disk please see the faq, it has an entry on this.
> > 
> > 
> > 		URL, please?
> 
> /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK
> or
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK
> 
> 

	Great! thanks again,

	gary

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