Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL 1.2.10 with hard disk going slow...

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Mon, September 3, 2007 13:35, Dom wrote:
> 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!

Your theory is most likely right, I would also point to the hard disk.
Make sure you got a good backup of everything, the disk may just stop
working completely soon or you may experience data loss.

Can you see anything in the syslog or on tty10 (alt + F10) ?

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org