Re: Reiserfs, 3 Raid1 arrays, 2.4.1 machine locks up

[Jasmeet Sidhu <jsidhu@arraycomm.com>]

As other posts have pointed out, if you have BAD HDMA cables, you will 
experience problems.  One thing I would suggest is that you 
add  kernel.*        /dev/console to your /etc/syslog.conf so that you see 
any errors resulting from the kernel code.  Also I would suggest that you 
open another virtual terminal and leave tail -f /var/log/messages and keep 
an eye on it when the system could possibly crash.  This should help you 
out a little bit.

At 09:36 PM 2/22/2001 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
> > I partitioned the 2 drives (on 1st and 2nd controller, both 1.3 GB each)
> > into 4 total partitions.  1st is swap and then the next 3, 1 primary, 2
> > extended are for raid 1 arrays.  I've given 20 MB to /boot (md0), 650MB
> > to / (md1) and the rest (400+MB) to /var (md2).  I format md0 as ext2
> > and md1 and md2 as reiserfs.  When I go to untar the image on the cd to
> > /mnt/slash (which has md1 mounted on it), the system extracts about 30MB
> > of data and then just stops responding.  No kernel output, etc.  I can
> > change to the other virtual consoles, but no other keyboard input is
> > accepted.  After resetting the machine, the raid arrays rebuild ok, and
> > reiserfs gives me no problems other than it usually replays 2 or 3
> > transactions.  If I tell tar to pickup on the last directory I saw
> > extracted, it gets about another 30MB of data and stops again.  I've
> > waited for the raid syncing to be finished or just started after the
> > arrays are available and it doesn't matter.
>
>Try running sync; sync; sync; ... while untarring.
>                                                                 Pavel
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Jasmeet Sidhu
Unix Systems Administrator
ArrayComm, Inc.
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