On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> I have a Samba server using xfs 1.2 from SUSE 8.2
>
> A few days ago it locked up.
>
> A few files were lost and filled with nulls. I know that issue is far
> less likely with xfs 1.3, so I have started the upgrade process.
>
> In addition, I have been told that a lot of DB4 database updates from
> the hours prior to the lockup have been lost. Not the whole file, just
> the updates.
>
> First, could that also be explained by the fact xfs 1.2 does not sync
> the disk cache out to disk.
>
> Second, is xfs 1.3 likely to not to have similar issues.
>
> FYI: We just started using this SUSE 8.2 box as a Samba Server for our
> CRM database (DB4) a couple of months ago. It has not really gone as
> smooth as I had hoped (ie. it has locked up twice, each time with some
> data loss). I am upgrading that server to SUSE 9.0 with xfs 1.3.
> Hopefully that will be more reliable.
Has it occurred to you that maybe your problem is hardware and not
software?
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