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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:20:12PM -0600, Miles O'Neal wrote:
> recap: new 64 bit Intel quadcore server with Adaptec SATA RAID
> controller, 16x1TB drives.  1 drive JBOD for OS.  The rest are
> setup as RAID6 with 1 spare.  We've tried EL5.1 + all yum updates,
> and EL5.2 stock.  We can't get /dev/sdb1 (12TB) stable with ext2
> or xfs (ext3 blows up in the journal setup).

This doesn't sound normal to me. We were able to create a stable 10TB
ext3 filesystem, though on an external RAID connected through an LSI
ultra320 scsi controller. We gave up on the idea in favor of XFS since
testing showed we'd be in for some long fsck times, but it did work ok.
Is it possible you could have hardware problems?

Graham
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