[4.11-STABLE] sporatic directory corruption with unionfs ...
Marc G. Fournier
scrappy at hub.org
Sun May 22 06:40:57 PDT 2005
I have 6 servers in place right now, with the 6th being a brand new Intel
1U box, using a 3Ware 9500 controller to do RAID5 for 3xSATA drives ...
yesterday, for the first time, I've started to get a sort of file system
corruption that I've never seen before ... basically, it looks like the
directory entries are getting corrupted, but the files themselves are fine
...
Basically, I have a jail, with /usr in the jail being a unionfs from a
template ... so:
mount_union -b /template/usr /jail/usr
in the template, there is a directory /usr/local/cyrus/bin, for instance
... the binaries under /usr/local/cyrus/bin are literally disappearing, as
if someone were entring that directory and doing a 'rm' of those files ...
I have a serial console attached to this server, and there are no errors
being reported by the operating system ... tw_cli is showing that drives
and unit are both functioning properly ... so I can find no reasons for
the apparent "corruption" ...
I just brought the server down to single user mode, and umounted
everything so that I could do an fsck on the file system itself, and *its*
checking as being clean ... its still running though, so there may be
something at the end ...
When I first noticed this, yesterday, the server had been running 11 days,
and nothing in /var/log/messages to indicate a problem ... today, after
<24hrs, its done it again, and again, no errors being generated anywhere
to indicate a problem ...
All the other 5 servers are running SCSI ... but unless there is a bug in
the 9500 driver, I can't see it being hardware related ...
I've kinda always expected something like this might happen with unionfs
as a result of the server crashing, but not when its running fine ...
I don't know what else to add to this, unfortunately, since neither the
hardware, or the operating system, seem to want to give anything up :(
The OS is from April 11th, so is relatively recent ...
Any suggestions/ideas on what else to look at would be much appreciated
...
Thank you ...
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