On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:
Christian Zimmermann writes
This just confirms that this machine is not capable of handling any instruction involving large directory trees. If you have to use rsync, split it in pieces...
We can't do this. We need a running machine.
You can do this by running a script that navigates the directory tree and rsyncs directory by directory. A bit extreme, but that should work better.
I went to reboot the machine. The screen was showing the same ext3 errors we had with earlier crashes.
HOWEVER, the machine is not booting now. It hangs with:
aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang?
A rapid googling of this reveals that we have either to modify BIOS specs, recompile the raid driver, make sure we have kernel version 2.4 (I think we have), or other steps that are beyond my competence. I warrant Tim can do this, but he is not in today. I hope he can do it tomorrow. I will be teaching 8:00-1:45 tomorrow.
There is no raid on the macihne.
Hmm. Would a further reboot be successful, or is something somewhere amiss and correctable? I can try something before going home.