Provlima me ext2fs filesystem?

[Yiannis An. Mandravellos]

Moy paroysiasthke ena provlima ksafnika sto filesystem.
As ta paroyme ta pragmata apo thn arxh, omws.

Ena proi mpaino me telnet sto linux box kai vlepo oti htan *tromera* argo
sthn apokrish. Afoy syndethika edwsa uptime kai sto load average eida kati
trella noymera (pano apo 50)!
Amesws dinw ena ps x kai vlepo oti sto pedio time eixan poly megala noymera
ta processes poy eixan ksekinhsei apo to logrotate (to opoio trexei apo cron
kathe mera).

Meta apo ligo psaksimo kateliksa sthn aitia toy provlimatos:

[root at dialin log]# ls -ld news
drw-------    2 root     root      9797632 Feb  7 13:30 news/

10Mbytes mono gia directory entries ?!?!?!?!?!
Peritto na sas po oti se ayto to directory den mporw na kanw oyte ls oyte rm
oyte tipota...
O monos tropos poy eida ti (?) periexei to directory htan na dwsw

rm -rfv /var/log/news

to opoio (logw toy option -v) arxise na deixnei ti svynei (dithen...):

<apospasma>
removing
news/news.crit.2.gz.1.gz.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.2.gz.z
removing
news/news.crit.2.gz.1.gz.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.3.gz.z
removing
news/news.crit.2.gz.1.gz.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.4.gz.z
removing
news/news.crit.2.gz.1.gz.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.1.gz.2.gz.1.gz
</apospasma>

To anwterw apospasma vevaios einai epanalamvanomeno kai einai sigoyro oti
kati den paei kala...

Exw dokimasei ta panta (oti ksero h mporw na skeftw). Ews kai to debugfs
dokimasa, alla tipota...

Opoiosdhpote exei ksanakoysei kati h exei kapoia idea...

Eyxaristw.

P.S. To linux box einai server se mia etairia kai doyleyei 24/7...

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Yiannis Mandravellos
E-mail: mandrav at acropolis.net