From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 6: 4:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714D637B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 06:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F00E43EC2 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 06:04:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myraq@mgm51.com) Received: from winbloat (winbloat.24cl.home [10.0.1.10]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F70E29496 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:04:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <200301040904180651.007E1509@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <200301030925230109.03BFB685@home.24cl.com> References: <20030102084356.R18514-100000@atlas.home> <200301021213290839.0A719772@home.24cl.com> <200301020901270548.09C1C68B@sentry.24cl.com> <20030103044538.GB3132@gothmog.gr> <200301030925230109.03BFB685@home.24cl.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.01 (4) Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 09:04:18 -0500 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lots of files in a directory Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1/3/2003 at 9:25 AM MikeM wrote: | [snip] | |To you and others who have helped me, here's what I'm doing. | |- tomorrow I am upgrading from 4.5 to 4.7 |- once that proves stable, I'll increase the DIRHASH value appropriately. |- once that proves stable, I'll "tunefs -n enable /usr" to turn on soft |dependencies | |I'll report back with my experiences with the new configuration so that the |archive remains complete. ============= The upgrade to 4.7 went very smoothly. Many thanks to the documentation team for the excellent documentation on upgrading (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/relnotes-i386.html#AEN577). This was my first major upgrade on a remote server (I have been keeping up-to-date with the security patches). Needless to say, I was a bit apprehensive when I typed that "reboot" command. I never thought I'd be so very happy to see the words "Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 ..." appear on my ssh screen. :-) Next I did the tunefs step. I had to ask the techs at the datacenter to boot into single user mode and perform the tunefs on the local console. That also went smoothly. When I tried to "tar -yxf" the freedb archive, the server became unresponsive. I am not sure exactly what the root cause of the problem was, as my ssh session went dead and I could not re-establish a connection. Long story short, I found out the tech support in the data center (www.tera-byte.com) is excellent. The tech re-established the local console and ran the fsck required to bring the server back to life. He did mention the following in one of his emails, "[the server] appears to be having some problems with the fsck due to some dirty inodes... ". The server is back online now, and running well. Trying to duplicate the problem, I ran a similar sequence sequence of events on a server here at my house. It didn't crash, but I did get screenfuls of the following error message: /usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free tar: misc/ed11d70f: Cannot open: No space left on device That message was repeated for each of the hundreds of thousands of files. I suspect 'something' on my remote server was not happy about dealing with such a flood of error messages. At this point, I'm not willing to newfs the file system to get the number of inodes that I need. So I think, so far as I am concerned, this experiment is over. :-) Once again, thanks to everyone who gave me help on this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message