Christian Zimmermann writes
I am not sure the disk is toast. We had problems previously that were solved with a better directory structure. Maybe this is the same problem again. The CitEc AMF data has grown a lot recently, if some directory has a lot of files, this would replicate the earlier problem.
I hope pray, cry out for, that you are right. If that is the case, we have to recover to a local backup first. We can not use rsync to backup if this is where the problem is. Last time thte problems came from JMBC storing tons of files in mutabor. This could also cause my backup to hang here. JMBC please check locally. I have stopped the crontab from mutabor that delivers the CitEc data adnetec@mutabor:~$ crontab -l MAILTO=kurmanov@openlib.org # ###33 03 * * * rsync -qa --delete adnetec@all.repec.org:/home/adrepec/RePEc/remo/ /home/adnetec/RePEc/remo 20 * * * * /home/adnetec/CitEc/bin/check_mysql >> /home/adnetec/var/log/check_mysql.log # # # mirror RAS' cit.events exports # # old: 15 8 * * * rsync -t aras@nebka.openlib.org:citec-export/* /home/adnetec/ras-exports/ #15 8 * * * /home/adnetec/etc/ras-exports-cronjob.sh # # weekly update of files: iscited and hasreferences # 10 10 * * sun /home/adnetec/CitEc/bin/weekly Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel