Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
So it's beginning to sound like it's crashed, yes? But it hasn't. The disk activity lights for the drives where /new-directory lives are still flashing and running top on the old server shows me that a couple of nfsd processes are busy and that system is spending a lot of time accessing its disks (there's not much else running) so it seems like the cp processes are still running.
Hmm, and you are sure that both disksets are OK and don't have any bad sectors? What filesystems are you using?
I made a mistake when I said the new filesystem is ext4; it's actually xfs. The old server is reiserfs but I don't think there's any problem on that machine. There definitely seems to be some kind of problem on the new machine, most likely associated with a drive or motherboard port.
At this point I don't see any alternative to rebooting but I thought I'd ask first to see if anybody had any other ideas on ways to gather information?
Difficult if you cannot access it anymore. I'm normally logging to a remote machine so I can always see syslog output.
That's a good idea. I'll set that up before I run my next experiment. Thanks. At the moment suse is on another partition on the drive that fails. I might move suse to a different drive to separate things. I did reboot and found the same symptoms as before - one specific drive not responding. After a powercycle, it's OK again. I've swapped it with the drive next to it to see whether the problem follows the drive or stays with the bay/controller port. At the moment it's still rebuilding the RAID.
Ah, there it goes. Hmm, running out of resources? If the new disks are still flashing they are still writing, so the buffer might be over-full and everything else is swapped out?
Hmm, I'll be sure watch the resource usage more carefully when I restart the transfer. Thanks again.
Could of course also be a network card problem....
Maybe, but I don't see how that could produce the temporarily failed drive symptom.
Out of ideas now
Thanks for the ones you did have! Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org