Hi,
A while ago, I converted a 4.3G disk into Advfs and moved /var onto it. I
realised that there was a lot of temporary files on that file system, so I
had a cron job defragging the file system every night. It was running
fine for a few month until a user couldn't open her mailbox in
/var/spool/mail. Any process that try to access the file hangs.
Eventually the whole system (8200 running 4.0A) hangs.
A week ago, I installed 4.0D on the machine. On friday, a user tried to
read his email and the whole thing happened again.
Has anyone had similar experience?
I think I'll convert /var back to ufs for the time being.
TIA,
Martin Li <Martin.Li_at_unsw.edu.au>
School of Mathematics Tel: +61 2 9385 3685
UNSW, Australia Fax: +61 2 9385 1071
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