Re: need help with approx-gc
On Sunday 10 May 2015 00:27:45 Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20150509_1832-0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > The following is just a few examples from kern.log:
> > > May 8 11:32:49 cmn kernel: [4880283.861051] end_request: I/O
> > > error, dev sda, sector 16136192
> >
> > Ouch! You have a disk that is crying out for help. Oh the pain and
> > suffering of it!
> >
> > > All of them have the same sector number. This is the sda drive,
> > > which is formatted as ext4. Is there some way that the automatic
> > > reallocate could the repaired by a forced manual fsck? and is the
> > > rescue function on the netinst CD adequate for this?
> >
> > I have often been in your same situation. I would ensure that the
> > backup is current and valid and then replace the disk. That is me.
> > I have seen disks get worse very quickly after they have exhibited
> > failures. Modern disk controllers keep internal spares. By the
> > time the disk is showing errors externally the internal spares have
> > probably all been consumed with other failures.
> >
Absolutely. Get a new drive, set that one as sdb & the new one as sda,
install on sda, then mount sdb's partitions and copy off the data you
need to maintain the path thru life you are on.
> > Problems like this will quickly make you a believer in RAID. I
> > pretty much raid everything these days just to avoid being in this
> > situation. In a RAID the bad disk would have already been kicked
> > out of the raid array. It would then be left running in degraded
> > mode on the remaining drives. The system would keep running without
> > problems. Replacing the failing drive and backfilling the raid
> > array can all occur while the system is up and online.
> >
> > > Not running SMART.
> > > What Debian package provides smartctl ?
> >
> > apt-get install smartmontools
> > smartctl -l error /dev/sda
> >
> > I expect that to show errors.
> >
> > smartctl -t short /dev/sda
> > sleep 120
> > smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
> >
> > I expect that to show errors.
> >
> > > I don't think the following tests will make the reallocation
> > > problem go away.
> >
> > Nope. Seems like a disk failure to me.
> >
> > > I was planning to do something else this weekend, Oh well.
> >
> > RAID. I can't say enough good things about it in these situations.
> > And backup.
> >
> > BTW... I have a low priority machine that is crying right now that
> > SMART selftests are failing. It hasn't gotten to the actual I/O
> > failure error stage yet but it is only a matter of time. It is a
> > low priority machine so I haven't actually done anything yet. It is
> > still up and running. But I have a disk and as soon as I get a few
> > spare minutes this weekend I am going to go swap out the failing
> > disk for another. But tomorrow looks pretty busy for me. I
> > probably won't get to it until Monday. And I have no stress about
> > it because it is a raid and the other disk is healthy. Plus backups
> > are current.
> >
> > Bob
>
> Bob,
>
> I have no doubt that raid is the right way to go, but my personal
> situation is that I am working with old hardware, and I can't buy a
> state of the art new computer unless prices suddenly crash. I'm quite
> sure that I have daily backups going back to before I switched to
> Jessie well before its release. I won't be able to get replacement
> parts for the current box except by mail order, and I don't know if it
> can hold more than one drive (It is an old Dell packaged in one of
> their tiny desktop cases.) As I write, I am thinking I should turn
> off the failing machine, and learn to live without it for a few weeks.
> It has been running approx and cups (It is the old box with Centronix
> connector that figured in another thread here.) I have another old
> Dell with a slightly bigger case. How many independent HDrives are
> needed?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Paul E Condon
> pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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