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From: Dom <dl...@ed...> - 2007-09-03 19:38:46
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My DL-based samba server has worked like a dream for several years, now it is on a serious go slow. Also I seem to have a lost an LVM logical volume /var/data (filesystem ext2) - at boot there are messages something like this: --------------------------- fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /.../devil-linux/data Could this be a zero-length partition? Mounting /var/data mount: you must specify the filesystem type [FAILED] --------------------------- But AFAIK I have never used /var/data so this shouldn't matter. The other LVs (/home, /var/log, /opt, swap) seem to load OK but there are usually transaction replays on /home (which is the important one with the data) and /var/log. And the samba server is running very slow. It has always been fast before though I noticed a couple of months ago that it was occasionally very slow accessing one sub-folder which had some very large files in it. I have a very simple setup and haven't made any significant changes recently. What is happening? My current theory is that the hard disk is failing. I plan to (try to) migrate my data to a new RAID 1 two-disk array and hope this gives me back the performance and gives better protection in the event of failure. But I am far out of my depth here. If anyone has any suggestions I would be grateful to hear them! Dom |