Dan Naumov wrote: > What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running > FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. [...] After the installation of the OS (usually > about 8-12 days of running non-stop) I start getting "Bad File > Descriptor" errors on random files all around the Maxtor drive and I > have to go to single-user mode in order to run a full fsck on the > system. After that, the system works, until in 8-12 days time even > more files get "corrupted" this way and the process has to be > repeated. Eventually, so many files are damaged that a full OS > reinstall is required. I had exactly the same experiences while using the same FreeBSD versions. The filesystems slowly died without any direct sign pointing to hardware problems. But, after having exchanged the harddisk with a newer one, the effect never occured again. k.j.Received on Wed Dec 03 2003 - 12:51:15 UTC
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