xfs data loss

[Christian Kujau]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 at 09:22, Passerone, Daniele wrote:
> We have a SUN X4500 with 48 500 GB drives, that we configured under SUSE 
> SLES 10.                                                                                                              

SLES 10, that's Linux 2.6.16-something, right?

> These units are not backed up.

I know, I probably shouldn't ask this right now, but I'm kinda curious: 
_Why_ aren't they backed up?

> 3) xfs_ncheck eats a lot of memory and freezes after 6-7 hours without giving output

Did you look into the syslog too? Maybe the box was out of memory and 
killed xfs_ncheck. How much memory does the box have?

Christian.
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