After many a reboot, I got everything off Martina, who has now been wiped and reinstalled with CentOS 4.4.

I just configured Samba and dropped 60GB of AVIs on it. I want to see if the crashes were purely a hardware problem or a hardware+driver issue. I was never able to make the box crash except by transferring huge amounts of data over the network, so it's fundamentally sound otherwise.

Which is good, because it's about to get a lot of work to do.

And speaking of stress tests, I just downloaded Picasa and said "Index this!" I did make it easier by archiving 600,000 images during the big backup, so we'll see how it goes.

Update: Martina seems to be working fine. I copied files back and forth until I got bored, without a hiccup.

Picasa, on the other hand, locked up after a couple of hours. My boss is a huge fan of Picasa, but I don't use it. I couldn't remember why, exactly, but I seemed to recall that last time I tried it, it spent a couple of hours indexing my drives before freezing solid. Google don't seem to have fixed that bit.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:38 PM | Comments (33) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)