Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to the lovely and talented pocketnaomi!!! Have a great one!!

Foo

The fileserver froze again last night -- this is getting old. I remain convinced that it's some kind of driver race condition: it's not happening with the near-identical drive on the recording box. It could also be due to lurking disk corruption causing it to hang on a read. In that case, a fsck might fix it. It might not.

In either case, I'm tired of fighting it. I'm dropping the fileserver back to a single IDE drive, and moving the (SATA) mirror to another machine. Hopefully by the time I need it, SATA support will be better.

Meanwhile, I have lots of other work to do, and I don't want to have to deal with random fileserver hangs on top of it all.

10:48 It's even having trouble staying up long enough to copy a partition to the new drive. So here's the plan:

( plans within plans; wheels within wheels. Nothing to see here )

That's better

Nova (the fileserver) hung again this morning; it was hosed when I checked on it from work. So when I got home I turned off email (didn't want it ending up in the wrong place), brought up nova just long enough to update the mirror and take down the workstation that had the external drives hung off it, and moved the new 500GB IDE drive from the external box to nova.

After that, I installed a clean copy of Lenny on the small rescue partition, and spent the entire damned rest of the evening copying files off the mirror. Amused myself while tar was doing its thing by seeing if I could configure a working fileserver out of Lenny, and almost succeeded. Still something wrong with nfs. It may just be something I didn't restart properly. I also had time to eat dinner, do the dishes, and move the boxes of Christmas stuff (including tree) back into the garage. Which in turn involved cleaning out the little closet between the bedroom and the garage, tossing out no less than three huge boxes that once held monitors that we no longer own.

I was a little surprised at how long it stayed up. I suspect that the problem has to do with writing to a SATA drive, and I wasn't doing much of that. But it's back.

Bear fall over now.