Re: fsck out of memory

Stephan van Hienen (raid@a2000.nu)
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:08:44 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> Hmm, I don't think that will be easy... By default e2fsck will load all
> of the inode blocks into memory (pretty sure at least), and if you have
> 76922880 inodes that is 9.6GB of memory, which you can't allocate from a
> single process on i386 no matter how much swap you have. 2.5GB sounds
> about right for the maximum amount of memory one can allocate.

hmms the data is not critical yet (i was just testing this server)
i really wonder why the crash was there in the first place

thing i found in /var/log/messages :

Feb 7 04:18:15 storage kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md(9,0)):
ext3_new_block:
Allocating block in system zone - block = 536875638
Feb 7 04:18:15 storage kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md(9,0)):
ext3_new_block:
Allocating block in system zone - block = 536875639

doesn't look ok to me (and explains the crash?)

makes me wonder if this can have todo with the lbd (to allow 2TB+ devices)
patch ? or is this something else?
(if it can be related to the lbd patch, i will remove 2 hd's from the
array (but i don't prefer this option))

also for not getting this thing again (that i can't fsck my filesystem)
what are the setting i can use for creating a large filesystem on /dev/md0
? (what is the maximum workable inodes?)

i did this :

mke2fs -j -m 0 -b 4096 -i 4096 -R stride=16

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