How exactly can Apache screw my FAT and make 60GB of photos disappear? WTF!?! I can't even fathom how it's possible for it to somehow truncate the display of a list of folders and have that transfer over to the actual drive.
Also, I have a copy of everything at home on another drive, but now I don't have the photos that I need here for a project.
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09-24-2005, 12:49 AM #1
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Apache + Lots of folders = FAT problem
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09-24-2005, 08:53 AM #2
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That bites. Who uses FAT anymore anyway? I have seem programs choke on large numbers of files/folders because they have a secret upper limit on how much they can traverse. So the files/folders might exist but the program or module can't get to them. Total name length can be an issue too (i.e. "drive//dir/.../dir/dir/dir/name") can be too long too.
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09-24-2005, 09:06 AM #3
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People who want to use their drive between a PC (NTFS) and Mac (HFS+). Otherwise it'd be NTFS all the way.
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09-24-2005, 09:32 AM #4
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And here I thought Macs could read NTFS drives. Or at least connect to NTFS servers.
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09-24-2005, 10:19 AM #5
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i use reiserfs and have never had any problems with apache seving up all my music files (200+ GB)
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09-24-2005, 10:46 AM #6
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I think it would be cool if you could share some of that fez. That is a motherlode of music.
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09-24-2005, 11:15 AM #7
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OS X can read NTFS volumes.
Drive failure, not apache being the issue.
You should defrag more often when running a web server (if infact you're running it)
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09-25-2005, 09:47 AM #8
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Clearly this is a very random error, I know.
The drive is essentially a repository for my images and videos; I don't delete anything I put on there. Defragging would be a bit redundant since the disk has essentially been written to maybe 8 times EVER.
My roomate is a 'mac genius' who works for apple... I thought he knew what he was talking about when he said OS 10 didn't fully support NTFS, but whatever.
I also had a hard time believing it was apache... that said, I was literally browsing through my image folders, which were all fine and dandy, then I edited my apache config to include them, restarted apache, and viewed the index page which only showed a fraction of the folders, went back and refreshed the view on explorer to find that indeed the same folders were suddenly missing there.
That all happened within maybe 3 minutes, without any other disk access to the external drive, so I somehow doubt that anything else could have done it.
The space for the images hasn't been freed up or anything, I just can't get to them. Also, none of my other data on the drive (basically just video/audio) has been affected in any way. The drive works fine, norton finds no disk errors, etc. I just watched an episode of south park from it, actually.Last edited by backpack; 09-25-2005 at 09:51 AM.
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