3rd Fedora disk curdle

[Gerard J. Cerchio]

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 1. Define "curdle their ext3 disk".
>   
I use the word curdle to describe a disk with lost inodes, sectors that 
are multiply  allocated, and other such problems that fsck valiantly 
tries to correct but winds up with a non-working system. In the last 
case I got a clean boot and clean subsequent fsck, however many 
applications just seg faulted when I tried to run them.
> 2. What version of VMware are you using?
>   
VMWare server 1.04 (latest freebe)
> 3. What's your host version?
>   
Windows XP 64 SP2. Booting off an Nvidia RAID5 4 disk 1 TB.
> 4. Are you using the default settings on your virtual disks or are you
> changing them in some way?
>   
The first two I just took all the defaults. This new one I put on the 
IDE controller. I don't have a whole bunch of faith in the snapshot 
system either so  I just don't use it.

Now here is something interesting, I just did a NTFS chkdsk on the RAID 
and it moved my vmdk's into a copy of the the VM's directory while 
reporting 2 lost files. These are the first errors I have ever seen on 
the NVidia RAID after running it for a year. This has me nervous enough 
to move the VM's off the RAID and onto an IDE backup drive in the 
system. Maybe I am looking at some VMare/XP64 interaction. Anyway I'll 
report any new problems on this thread.