--On Friday, September 10, 2004 16:27 +0200 Paul Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What did the kernel improve? You are not using a clustered filesystem, right?
RH kernels tend to coem up with bugs that noone else sees FYI (this is why my employer we're switching to Debian...)
Well, it's UFS2 with softupdates, so yes. I'm afraid the journal was damaged in my case, there were serveral complaints while doing the fsck about softupdate inconsistencies. (The server crashed once more but since I mounted with -o sync now the fsck was much faster. I'll keep it that way for now untill we know what's really wrong - it was again with a large mail-folder synchronisation...)
FWIW I can't call soft updates a journal. 9/10 times when i have had a crash, the soft updates journal either was corrupt, inconsistent, or made things worse. When running with soft updates many times I'd lose many days worth of mail on a restart.
Hmm, I don't expect the problems to be SCSI-related. Maybe it has to do with GEOM and SMP in FreeBSD 5.2.1, but not the SCSI-bus itself. (There are two seperate controllers for both machines, they never see each other on the same SCSI bus...)
Probably not, more likely something funkish in FBSD 5.2.1
I still think that it would be best to have two filesystems instead of one, so with mirroring on application level (cyrus)... :-)
I tend to agree....
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