Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 07/20/2010 10:57 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> In the last month - definitely after going to 5.5 - I've tried to fsck a >> drive (340 days, or some such, unchecked). 960G RAID 5, I *think*, >> possibly serial port attachment to a JetStore RAID array. Every time I >> try, it gets to 70.0%, and stops. As in, I left it run last night, >> having >> started it late afternoon, and around 23:00, it was still exactly there, >> not even .1% more. On that, I also had a -dd flag, since running it the >> other day with a -d gave me nothing at all of debugging info; neither >> did the dd. >> > I've seen e2fsck hang on large arrays (terabyte range) before, > particularly if you have lots of hard links. It's a bug in fsck. > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2007-March/msg00016.html ARGH! We're doing rsync backups on it, and use a *lot* of hard links.... Wonnaful, wonnaful. mark