[Jfs-discussion] Re: [PATCH] Mount troubles?

2001-10-04 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Patch applied fine. rebooted and I still see the error. For some reason the kernel version #1 is not incrementing like it usually does. I did check the bzImage file and lilo and it looks like I have the correct kernel. I saw something on the lkml about .version being clobbered before

[Jfs-discussion] [PATCH] Mount troubles?

2001-10-04 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Here's a patch to jfs 1.0.6 that I believe will fix the problem. I have not tested it on 2.4.11-pre*, but it doesn't break anything on 2.4.10. Dave diff -Naur linux24-1.0.6/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c linux24-new_inode/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c --- linux24-1.0.6/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c Thu Sep 27 10:07:20 2001

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Mount troubles?

2001-10-04 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Anthony Liu wrote: I am not sure if this is related to the problem here, but currently (1.0.6) will refuse to mount a dirty partition until you run fsck with the -F:2 option, if it is the root partition then fsck will run during boot anyway. Running fsck -a should be sufficient to mark

Re: [Jfs-discussion] re installing red hat 7.1

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Adrian Suri wrote: Sorry if I was a little of topic but I know once one moves over to LVM/JFS fdisk be it windows/OS2/Linux can destroy data on your disk I'm not sure what gets destroyed. It's been a while since I played with OS/2, but when I moved from OS/2 to Linux, the only thing I

[Jfs-discussion] Many error messages when booting Suse 7.3

2001-10-26 Thread Dave Kleikamp
own kernel, you know what to do. If not, I can build a Suse kernel with the fix, but I won't be able to get it done until next week. Thanks, Dave Kleikamp Forwarded message: Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:53:18 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: fs-crash after linux hang

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Damaged JFS filesystem

2001-12-06 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Neil Carlson wrote: In a further test, I copied a directory tree (~50MB) into a brand new jfs partition, and then removed it. Prior to the copy, df showed 196KB used in the partition (500MB), presumably for the journal/log. After the cp/rm/sync it showed 332KB used. Unmounting the

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Q: Status of Jfs for linux ?

2002-01-14 Thread Dave Kleikamp
szonyi calin wrote: Hi Some time ago i was using jfs on linux but it had a bug.(Hanging at the last sync before unmounting partition).(i heard it was fixed) The question is: It is safe to use jfs for a root partition ? Yes, I've been running JFS on my root partition for some time now.

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Q: Status of Jfs for linux ?

2002-01-14 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Dave Kleikamp wrote: I'm currently running JFS 1.0.11 on my laptop, ... I meant to say 1.0.12. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ___ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Detection of filesystem type on a device without mounting (fwd)

2002-01-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Friday 25 January 2002 09:20 am, Lenz Grimmer wrote: Hi there, does anybody have a good idea on how to solve Thomas' problem? I am not aware of such a tool for JFS - is there another trick? You could build a wrapper around xpeek. xpeek doesn't verify that the volume is JFS (it probably

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Bug 2591, 2609

2002-01-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, yesterday i checked the 1.0.13 version but i still have the same problem. The FreePascal compiler freezes the system, only pinging the machine works (the keyboard interrupt handler also seems to run, the num lock led is working) Additionaly i had some

Re: [Jfs-discussion] [PATCH] Fix file size limit on 32bit

2002-02-07 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Andi Kleen wrote: JFS sets a s_maxbytes value that is bigger than the page cache limit on 32bit machines. This could lead to silent wrapping when a big file write reaches the page cache limit, corrupting data at the beginning. Yes, this would be a problem. But shouldn't the upper limit be

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Typo in super.c

2002-02-26 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tuesday 26 February 2002 12:15 pm, Anthony Liu wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:25:05PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:18:18AM +0800, Anthony Liu wrote: Hi Can someone please put back the version number in super.c: printk(JFS development

Re: [Jfs-discussion] extendfs

2002-02-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Christoph Hellwig wrote: I think we should do it similar to the ext2 resizing patch and add a resize= option to mount (or remount to be more precise). I wasn't familiar with this approach, but I like it. I didn't really like the ioctl on the root directory, but didn't have a better idea.

Re: [Jfs-discussion] compiling linux-2.4-vger + jfs-1.0.15 on sparc32 yields warnings

2002-03-11 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Sunday 10 March 2002 10:39 am, Florin Iucha wrote: When compiling linux/fs/jfs/namei.c file the following warnings occured: namei.c: In function `jfs_mkdir': namei.c:200: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type namei.c: In function `jfs_link':

Re: [Jfs-discussion] jfs-1.0.15 on sparc32 eats partition table

2002-03-11 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Sunday 10 March 2002 02:10 pm, Florin Iucha wrote: Hello, I have got linux-2.4 from vger patched with jfs-1.0.15 . The patches applied cleanly. I have rebooted with the new kernel and created a jfs partition on my second disk (/dev/sdb1). I have copied some stuff (my /var directory)

Re: [Jfs-discussion] How to remove a file with a UTF8 filename?

2002-03-14 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 14 March 2002 06:41 am, root wrote: Hello, I switched a debian (woody) system from ext2 to JFS a week ago and now I'm experiencing some odd problems with a file. That file is in the console-tools-libs package and has the following name:

Re: [Jfs-discussion] How to remove a file with a UTF8 filename?

2002-03-15 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 14 March 2002 06:00 pm, Andi Kleen wrote: Most other linux file systems just have the policy of leaving such conversion to the user space by not interpreting the filenames. Userspace can store UTF-8 if it wants and convert it to any other set for display. How about supporting that

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Undeletable file - directory problem

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Jocki, JFS (on OS/2 as well as Linux) has a problem dealing with files that contain a character that doesn't map into the system codepage. (JFS stores all pathnames in 16-byte unicode.) One solution may be to make sure that nls_utf8.o is built either into the kernel or as a module and mount

[Jfs-discussion] Fwd: [BK patch] JFS compile error on 2.5.7

2002-03-20 Thread Dave Kleikamp
-0600 From: Dave Kleikamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can import this changeset into BK by piping this whole message to '| bk receive [path to repository]' or apply the patch as usual

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Re: rwsems, jfs, kernel 2.5.6

2002-03-21 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 21 March 2002 01:33 am, David Howells wrote: As tmp is not referenced after the assembly, I removed it from the output list and added it to the input list. This appears to fix it. Do you see anything wrong with removing tmp from the output list? Yes. You've told the

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Re: rwsems, jfs, kernel 2.5.6

2002-03-22 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 21 March 2002 04:54 pm, David Howells wrote: - : +m(sem-count), +d(tmp) - : a(sem) + : =m(sem-count), +d(tmp) + : a(sem), m(sem-count) Try replacing 'm(sem-count)' with '0(sem-count)' which should link to

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Attributes, ACLs, and EAs (oh my)

2002-03-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 28 March 2002 12:21 pm, Eric P. McCoy wrote: I'd also like to implement BSD- and e2fs-style file flags/attributes (particularly user- and system-immutable and append-only inodes). Obviously di_mode is where those belong, but I'll need at least 4 bits and there only _seem_ to be

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Attributes, ACLs, and EAs (oh my) [epm@cox.net]

2002-03-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 28 March 2002 01:11 pm, Eric P. McCoy wrote: The OS/2 refernce source on the website contains code for EA/ACL support. I can't seem to find it. On our homepage, it's the last link under the Get the Source heading.

Re: [Jfs-discussion] JFS resizer

2002-04-10 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 09:52 am, Steve Best wrote: A very large part of extendfs functionality is in the file system, like 100%. Doing this is user space is going to have some challenges, like there several items that aren't exported by the file system (i.e. creating a transaction, .)

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Typo in emergency help.

2002-04-23 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 07:07 am, Bas wrote: Hi, I noticed a typo in emergnecy help on fsck.jfs, mkfs.jfs and probably the rest. Thanks, we'll fix that. And I wonder if something in fsck.jfs has changed. Now, when I call fsck.jfs with a mountpoint, it exists with an error, but the

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Do metapage pages need to be locked?

2002-04-24 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 02:37 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: I guess all this stuff is still a couple of weeks away from readiness-for-inclusion. I'll do a first send of the core writeback changes tonight. JFS works OK with that code (well, it did in 2.5.8), but I suspect that it's subtly

Re: [Jfs-discussion] 2.5.14 deadlock

2002-05-10 Thread Dave Kleikamp
I'm sorry I haven't responded sooner. Andrew Morton wrote: Sorry, I broke it. I should have read the comment: /* * BUGBUG - Should we call filemap_fdatawrite here instead * of fsync_inode_data? * If we do, we have a

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Resize for JFS working with JFS 1.0.16/17 ?

2002-05-15 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 09:28, Joachim Selinger wrote: Hi! I'm using JFS as my main filesystem now for a long time now and am very happy with it. As I'm about to install a newer system using LVM it would be crucial for me to have the capability to resize the overlying filesystem. AFAIK,

[Jfs-discussion] Re: [PATCH][2.5] use list_move in IBM JFS driver (3 occ)

2002-06-10 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Sunday 09 June 2002 09:19, Lightweight patch manager wrote: This gets used to the new list_move macro three times. Remember you need the list_move_* patch, which was sent to LKML by me this morning. I'll hang onto this and apply it when your patch is accepted into Linus' kernel. --

Re: [Jfs-discussion] mpstat: free larger than alloc?

2002-06-27 Thread Dave Kleikamp
page allocations = 945055 page frees = 945056 Is it safe for page frees to be larger than page allocations? I don't think the keeping of these statistics is SMP-safe, so on an SMP machine, these numbers aren't completely reliable. I know the server might have a hardware problem (is yet

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Tool for setting/getting volume label and UUID on jfs

2002-07-11 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:19, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:06:45AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: We would want this in jfsutils and it would be supported. In fact we will need to use it to manage an external journal as well, and I'm sure we'll find other uses

[Jfs-discussion] Re: 2.5.27: Software Suspend failure / JFS errors

2002-07-23 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Sunday 21 July 2002 09:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This oops occurred during build of gcc.. Kernel 2.4.19-rc2-ac2. About the same happens with 2.5.27. I will post an oops of jfsCommit of 2.5.27 as soon as I get one. I just built gcc on 2.4.19-rc3 + latest JFS and didn't have a problem.

[Jfs-discussion] Re: JFS errors

2002-07-26 Thread Dave Kleikamp
No, it's built with JFS_DEBUG. That was the first thing I compiled into a new kernel when I first encountered this. I'll take another look at the oops. My initial thought was that if I was right in my assumptions, a dereference in an ASSERT statement would have caused a trap slightly earlier

[Jfs-discussion] [PATCH] 2.5.29: Oops at boot after mount of root fs (JFS)

2002-07-29 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Monday 29 July 2002 10:16, Axel Siebenwirth wrote: Hi, I get an oops during boot of 2.5.29. Since I have problems with JFS I guessed it might be related to JFS. It happens right after rw mount of my jfs root filesystem. At another attempt to boot not the rm process oops but mount itself

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Patch to reduce fragmentation within JFS file system

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 19 September 2002 12:51, Zhihui Zhang wrote: I looked briefly at the patch. Just one question: If I use tar xvfz to extract a gzip'ed ball, will all the files will be scattered into different AGs? Thanks. No, if one file is closed before the next file is created, JFS still tries

[Jfs-discussion] JFS CVS repository

2002-09-27 Thread Dave Kleikamp
I no longer see the need to keep the linux25 CVS tree up to date, so unless someone still has a need for it, I'm going to leave it as it is. I'll keep the linux24 tree going at least until all of the distributions are up to 2.4.20. Now that JFS is in the mainline kernel, Linus and Marcelo

Re: [Jfs-discussion] JFS CVS repository

2002-09-27 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Friday 27 September 2002 10:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Starting with a post-2.4.10 release woul allow the code in CVS to be much more similar to the 2.4.20-pre version, so I'd vote for removing the old code. I'd bring it back in line if this is okay with the users. I would definitely

Re: [Jfs-discussion] maximum filesystem size limit

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:16, Steve Best wrote: On a 32-bit machine, the file size is limited to 16 TB. (This is also the maximum size of the volume.) This is due to constraints in the Linux kernel. On a 64-bit machine, the file size can be as big as 4 PB (2^52). Steve, As Jens

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Renaming JFS Utilities

2002-10-17 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 17 October 2002 16:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote: I know :) That's why I think it should be a only replay log option to fsck instead of a standalone util. Okay. I agree. I was just making sure I understood. -l conflicts with an e2fsck flag though. Maybe -O (opposite of -o). --

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Renaming JFS Utilities

2002-10-17 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 17 October 2002 16:58, Scott Russell wrote: If it's an 'obscure' option then the way to handle is to use a long opt only I think. fsck.jfs --something. That way there is no confusion and a user won't 'accidentally' invoke it. Yeah, that would help avoid confusion.

Re: [Jfs-discussion] i_ino != di_number and related problems

2002-10-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Assuming that your machine has more than one processor, I think this problem is fixed in the JFS 1.0.24. This was released on October 18th, so it wouldn't have made it into Redhat 2.4.18-17.8. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ___

Re: [Jfs-discussion] JFS resize ?

2002-11-13 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howto increase my jfs FS online (mounted) ? mount -oremount,resize /mount_point -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ___ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Large file support in general

2002-11-13 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 09:17, SyvertsonJ wrote: I am trying to put some files that are larger 2 Gig on an ext3 file system. This should work. This file system is is running on an 2.4.13 version of the linux kernel. An updated Caldera 3.1 OpenLinux distro. Can ext2/3 do large file

Re: AW: [Jfs-discussion] jfs kernel BUG in linux-2.4.20-ac2

2003-01-16 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 16 January 2003 07:26, Uwe Kiewel wrote: Jan 16 06:21:31 lab1 kernel: assert(!test_cflag(COMMIT_Nolink, ip)) Jan 16 06:21:31 lab1 kernel: kernel BUG at namei.c:480! I think its a kernel bug, not an bug in jfs for linux. I'd be interested in more details. Thanks! Uwe --

Re: [Jfs-discussion] jfs and suse and os/2 and LVM problems

2003-01-20 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:49, Stefan Tibus wrote: Also OS/2 seems unable to recognise linux's jfs partition OS/2 allows JFS only on OS/2-LVM volumes. Any other JFS-formatted partition is not recognized by OS/2. Not exactly. OS/2 will only allow you to format an OS/2-LVM volume as

[Jfs-discussion] [PATCH - 2.5.60] JFS no longer compiles with gcc 2.95

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Kleikamp
I'm not sure what's causing the problem, but Andrew Morton send me this patch which gets rid of the problem for him. The fmt string that jfs_err() is invoked with is sufficient to identify the location, so __FILE__ and __LINE__ are not really needed anyway. Linus, please apply. Thanks,

[Jfs-discussion] Re: [PATCH - 2.5.60] JFS no longer compiles with gcc 2.95

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:04, Adrian Bunk wrote: Ah, then it's a well-known 2.95 parser bug (sorry for not looking better at it when sending my initial report). The following alternative patch is sufficient to fix the compilation with 2.95 (it's your choice which of the two patches you

Re: [Jfs-discussion] kernel BUG and filesystem lost !!

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 06:09, Juan Antonio Vera wrote: Hi all. I work with kernel 2.4.20 , lvm 1.0 and jfsutils 1.1.1. for 2 weeks and I had 3 or 4 problems with jfs filesystems. The problems basically happened when I worked with office aplications (StarOffice) or copy files

Re: [Jfs-discussion] kernel BUG and filesystem lost !!

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 10:32, Dave Kleikamp wrote: The damage to the volume looks extensive. Is it possible that the LVM volume modified in some harmful way? ... volume GOT modified ... ___ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Change default block size?

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Friday 14 February 2003 12:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just begun using JFS 1.1.1 with kernel 2.4.18 (Debian Woody). I note that block size is either 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096 bytes and that 4096 is the default. I looked at the man pages but didn't see an option to created a JFS

[Jfs-discussion] [ANNOUNCE] JFS 1.1.2

2003-03-25 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Release 1.1.2 of JFS was made available today. Drop 65 on March 25, 2003 includes fixes to the file system and utilities. Utilities changes - fix undefined reference to errno (G. D. Haraldsson) - allow jfs_mkfs to run on regular file - fix for-loop going past last element of vopen array -

Re: [Jfs-discussion] OS/2 Warp 4.5 - lost+found entries

2003-03-31 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Sunday 30 March 2003 12:54, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: I should've signed up for this list ages ago... :-) I'm afraid it wouldn't have done you much good. This list only pertains to JFS on Linux. :-( -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center

Re: [Jfs-discussion] OS/2 Warp 4.5 - lost+found entries

2003-03-31 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Monday 31 March 2003 08:10, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: Hmmm... I noticed some posts here concerning OS/2, so my assumption (I know, I know :-) ) was that this was for JFS on all platforms. Does JFS on Linux handle the lost+found directory contents much differently than on OS/2, Dave? No.

Re: [Jfs-discussion] OS/2 Warp 4.5 - lost+found entries

2003-03-31 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Monday 31 March 2003 08:35, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: Thanks. Essentially, then, this works like the FOUND directory structure under HPFS. I changed the flags on the contents of lost+found yesterday evening, and started poking around. The majority of the files were small (actually, they were

[Jfs-discussion] Re: oops with JFS 1.1.2 and 2.4.20

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 13:31, Chris Stromsoe wrote: A decoded oops report, the output from /proc/fs/jfs/*, and the ver_linux output is included below. The kernel is stock 2.4.20 with JFS 1.1.2 from http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs/ -Chris Chris, Thanks for the report. I think it's

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Re: compression support

2003-06-06 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Friday 06 June 2003 07:32, Harri Haataja wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:41:50AM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote: Steve Best wrote: Ron Arts wrote: Steve Best wrote: Ron Arts wrote: I am looking for a linux filesystem that supports compression. I found that AIX JFS does support

[Jfs-discussion] [PATCH] Re: Jfs problems

2003-06-23 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Monday 23 June 2003 05:34, Szonyi Calin wrote: Hi Accidentally I filled up my jfs root partition. After that I had some crashes with jfs Below is the dmesg and the crash. I think I found the problem. The patch below should fix it. I will try to reproduce the problem and verify that

Re: [Jfs-discussion] JFS autorepair doesn't work with CryptoAPI

2003-06-25 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 14:36, Laszlo Monda wrote: Hi, I am using JFS with CryptoAPI. When the system accidentally crashes and I reboot and correctly type the password the autorepair procedure doesn't happen as it is expected by me. I'm not familiar with using CryptoAPI, but I found this:

Re: [Jfs-discussion] JFS Linux AIX

2003-07-03 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:27, Westerman, J.D. wrote: Can I take a jfs file system that I have created on AIX and import it on a Linux server running the 2.4.20 kernel? No, JFS for AIX and Linux use different on-disk formats. :^( Thanks JD Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Compilation Error with 2.4.20-8

2003-07-03 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 03 July 2003 12:03, Tejaswi Redkar wrote: Hi! Below is the procedure and the error, could you tell me what I did wrong ? 1) Red Hat 9.0 2) Downloaded jfs-2.4-1.1.2.tar.gz from the web site and unzipped 3) Copied the jfs directory from the 2.4-1.1.2 to the /use/src/linux.../fs

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Compilation Error with 2.4.20-8

2003-07-03 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thursday 03 July 2003 13:20, Tejaswi Redkar wrote: Hi! Where should I download the patch/files from ? I tried them here http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jfs/ That's the right place. This patch hasn't made it into a release yet. (We're due for another release.) The very

Re: [Jfs-discussion] [PATCH] __get_metapage simplification

2003-07-15 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Monday 14 July 2003 20:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch below is just cleanup. 1) page_offset as calculated in __get_metapage is always 0. Please go through the variable substitution/calculation to verify. If the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE is greater than 4096, page_offset may be greater

[Jfs-discussion] Re: jfs directory structure

2003-08-29 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Those 128 bytes in the dtree page are the slot array. It is documented here: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-jfslayout/#h7 This is a sorted table of slot numbers with the page. This allows new entries to be inserted into the slot table without having to move the directory

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Bug in jfs.fsck

2003-09-04 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 04:15, Szonyi Calin wrote: It seems that fsck is trying to open the partition exclusively and because it can't it doesn't want to operate. The root filesystem cannot be opened exclusively because other programs are using it. See atached file lsof-hda6 for details.

RE: [Jfs-discussion] Bug in jfs.fsck

2003-09-04 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 10:32, Szonyi Calin wrote: There is still a problem with the fact that the filesystem was marked clean when actually it should be marked dirty. Fsck says that Filesystem is dirty but is marked clean. See atached file (fsck-f) for details. Hmm. but is marked clean is

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Re: [ANNOUNCE] JFS 1.1.3

2003-09-10 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 04:06, szonyi calin wrote: it seems that gcc-2.95.3 doesn't like the definition of fsck_send_msg gcc version: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-slackware-linux/2.95.3/specs gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) We were bit by this one once before in with the

Re: [Jfs-discussion] fsck.jfs CATASTROPHIC ERROR 24: i

2003-09-15 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:55, Alessandro Salvatori wrote: echo * does even make login crash! :D The same memory exhausted crash? If there is an oops in /var/log/messages, I'd be interested. i'll iterate... suggestions about bounds to the inode numbers in the for loop? thank you very much

Re: [Jfs-discussion] HELP: can't mount the partition anymore

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 12:47, Christian Zoffoli wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/JFS/jfsutils-1.1.3/fsck# ./jfs_fsck -f /dev/ataraid/d0p2 ./jfs_fsck version 1.1.3, 05-Sep-2003 processing started: 10/20/2003 17.39.55 The current device is: /dev/ataraid/d0p2 Block size in bytes: 4096 Filesystem

Re: [Jfs-discussion] What happens if you lose the log file?

2003-10-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 12:22, blair wrote: Hi all, I have JFS setup on a rather large raid array. I keep the log file on a different filesystem for performance reasons. What happens if the log file gets corrupted or deleted. IE I lose the disk that the log file is on. If you are

[Jfs-discussion] [ANNOUNCE] JFS 1.1.4

2003-10-30 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Release 1.1.4 of JFS was made available today. Drop 67 on October 30, 2003 includes fixes to the file system and utilities. Utilities changes - Work around gcc 2.95 bug - Handle log full without crashing - Message format fix File System changes - Make sure journal buffer gets flushed to disk

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Report: mounting JFS fails unless log got replayed

2003-11-10 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 20:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, as reported earlier on this mailinglist I had problems mounting an JFS partition - it failed to mount when connected to an external device. Meanwhile I managed to make the problem reproduce fixable: mounting the JFS

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Cannot delete file on jfs filesystem

2003-11-17 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 03:36, szonyi calin wrote: Hi There is a file in the kbd package with an unicode filename which i cannot delete. Kernel 2.6.0-test9 jfs-utils 1.1.4 util-linux 2.11.z Which file is this? ls says: No such file or directory Default NLS for kernel is iso8859-2 utf

Re: [Jfs-discussion] tons of 'jfs_clear_inode, active_ag =' ... messages

2003-11-17 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 08:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using JFS with 2.4.20 on debian, running on a PowerMac clone. The kernel is debian's 2.4.20-4-powerpc. Is there a way to for me to get an idea about what version of JFS kernel code I am actually running without source code to

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Some questions of IBM's JFS

2003-12-03 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 16:52, Zhihui Zhang wrote: Hi, I have been studying JFS on and off for quite a while. But I can never be as sure as the experts who really work on JFS on a daily basis. So would you please clarify the following points for me: (1) Dirty metapages are usually marked

Re: [Jfs-discussion] fsck times

2003-12-10 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 04:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just had a lock up on linux-2.6.0-test11 (with prempt, but it appears to work on this setup). The end result was that my main data partition on a 40G drive with JFS file system appears to be irreversably corrupted to the point where

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Linux device number bug report

2004-01-06 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 18:43, WEI Yongjun wrote: Hello, I have some questions about device number extension. In Linux kernel 2.6, device number will be extended from 16-bit to 32-bit. All utilities and libraries should make corresponding extension for this new feature in kernel 2.6. I

Re: [Jfs-discussion] character set design problem

2004-01-20 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:06, Bjoern JACKE wrote: Hi, there has been discussion about charset conversion in JFS once or twice before, for example on http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/bugs/?func=detailbugbug_id=3387group_id=35 I want to bring this topic up once more. JFS is the only

Re: [Jfs-discussion] character set design problem

2004-01-20 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 10:17, Bjoern JACKE wrote: On 2004-01-20 at 09:30 -0600 Dave Kleikamp sent off: This is a shame. This JFS was designed on OS/2, where it was possible for the kernel to convert to the user's charset, since the process's locale was available to the kernel. JFS has no way

Re: [Jfs-discussion] character set design problem

2004-01-20 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 10:25, szonyi calin wrote: Sorry for asking What character set should we use default when we mount a jfs filesystem with a 2.6 kernel ? I use utf8 but sometimes i have the problem described above. If you are starting from scratch, iso8859-1 will transparently convert

Re: [Jfs-discussion] character set design problem

2004-01-20 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 11:32, Bjoern JACKE wrote: I would in fact use cp1250. cp1250 is very much like iso8859-1 but defines all 255 characters. If you already have a JFS partition, which contains non-ASCII filenames and which was iocharset=utf8 mounted, you should save away the non-ascii

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Serious JFS problems :^(

2004-01-26 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 08:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys At one point or another, X/DRI caused my computer to crash and I was able to do Alt+SysRq+s to sync the disks before I had to do a hard reset. However on bootup I noticed that /home/sunny was missing (but all the other user

Re: [Jfs-discussion] md raid + jfs + jfs_fsck

2004-01-27 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 13:15, Florian Huber wrote: Hello MLs, today I switched from no-raid to linux kernel software raid 1 on a jfs and a ext3 partition. Both are working fine, but jfs_fsck reports an error on the jfs md device (md2 -- hda3+hdc3): Superblock is corrupt and cannot be

Re: [Jfs-discussion] md raid + jfs + jfs_fsck

2004-01-27 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 13:39, Florian Huber wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 20:28, Dave Kleikamp wrote: I wonder if JFS is having trouble getting the partition size. Can you run jfs_fsck with the -v flag to see what part of the superblock it doesn't like? The current device is: /dev/md2

[Jfs-discussion] Re: BUG in jfscode

2004-02-05 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 06:37, Tobias Bengtsson wrote: Hi! Hi, Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. kernel BUG at fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:2686! I've seen a similar bug reported before, but it occurs only rarely. I'm not sure what the cause is. My initial thought was the the block map got

[Jfs-discussion] JFS default behavior (was: UTF-8 in file systems? xfs/extfs/etc.)

2004-02-11 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 00:39, Tim Connors wrote: I submitted a bug to the jfs people, because jfs incorrectly returns -EINVAL (this isn't even documented in man pages as a valid return from open()) from an open() on a filename with UTF-8 in it. See

Re: [Jfs-discussion] JFS bug?

2004-02-19 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 09:44, John P Janosik wrote: We got a kernel error in /var/log/messages when cancelling an unmount of a JFS filesystem with ctrl-c on kernel 2.4.24 + jfsutils 1.1.4 on Intel. I am wondering if we should not have cancelled the unmount. I'm not sure you can cancel the

[Jfs-discussion] [ANNOUNCE] jfsutils 1.1.5

2004-03-04 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Release 1.1.5 of jfsutils was made available today. This release include the following changes to the utilities: - Fix problem creating entries in lost+found - Fix buffer overflow - Fix replaying of symlink journal records - Improve performance of duplicate block checking - Fix segfault when

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Phase 7 Errors detected in Fileset File/Directory Allocation Map control information

2004-03-09 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 04:15, Zeno R.R. Davatz wrote: Hi My HDD with jfs does not want to get mounted. I do fsck.jfs -f and I get: Phase 1-6 ok Phase 7: Errors detected in the Fileset File/Directory Allocation Map control information Phase 8: Incorrect data detected in disk allocation

Re: [Jfs-discussion] (no subject)

2004-03-24 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 08:49, Domenico Di Tullio wrote: Hello, I would to know for the jfs file system the follows charateristics : - max total number of files; This is limited by the 32-bit inode number, so just under 4G. -max total number of directories; again just under 4G. files +

[Jfs-discussion] Re: kernel 2.6.4: Bug in JFS file system?

2004-03-24 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 12:55, Andreas Theofilu wrote: Hi to all, Since kernel 2.6.4 I'm not able to access files with a special character in the file name, such as the german umlaute. Every attempt to access such a file gives me the error: cannot stat file I did this to you. I changed jfs's

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Need help. Unable to mount jfs again after power failure (JFS state: mounted??)

2004-03-26 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe the problem is that the jfs on /dev/sdb still thinks it is mounted? because of the JFS state: mounted? Yes, that would be it. if that might be the reason, is there any way to reset the state to not mounted or whatever it might

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Linux-2.4.22 Patches for JFS

2004-03-29 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 09:48, Mike Young wrote: Im trying to obtain the acls and ea patches for kernel 2.4.22. However, the PHP redirection seems to be breaking on me and I cant ever get to the actual patch. Can someone forward this to me? The website has been a bit flaky lately. I've

Re: [Jfs-discussion] JFS big problem -- cannot mount /usr in rw mode

2004-04-01 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 08:06, Janusz Zamecki wrote: After booting 2.4.21-199 standard SuSe 9 kernel, it works OK (can be mounted in rw mode). And then, after booting 2.6.5-rc3 again, everything is OK. I figured this one out. There's a bug that is only triggered when the current position of

Re: [Jfs-discussion] 64-bit Support

2004-04-01 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:17, Mike Young wrote: Hi, I know when we talk about 64-bit support, we often look at the file-system. Theres also been much work to add LBD support too. However, does anyone know where the 32-bit inode limit is addressed? I'm not sure what you mean by inode

RE: [Jfs-discussion] 64-bit Support

2004-04-01 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:02, Mike Young wrote: Hi Dave, But that means that you can't have more than 16TBytes worth of files on a Xeon-based system. So, even though the file-system can go quite large, there is still a limit: 2^32*4096, which is 16TB. That's right. If we i_ino a long

RE: [Jfs-discussion] 64-bit Support

2004-04-01 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:31, Mike Young wrote: Actually Dave, you've been very helpful. And I really appreciate it. It does sound like this limit is a soft limit, which, though it may not be addressed by the community on 32-bit platforms, could be tweaked and patches provided. This can be

Re: [Jfs-discussion] dbUpdatePMap: blocks are outside the map?

2004-04-07 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Josh, I haven't forgotten about you. I've been looking at this problem off and on and I think I might have figured out what caused the problem. It looks like what should have been a list of data extents in an inode had been overridden by the value of a symlink. After trying to figure out how

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Qustion about JFS_VERSION information...

2004-04-12 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 13:57, Brad Viviano wrote: Hello, I have searched the archive of this list, and other online resources and can not seem to find the answer. If I missed a spot and this has already been answered please point me at the right spot. I am using JFS version 1.1.2

Re: [Jfs-discussion] Possible filesystem corruption?

2004-04-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 06:05, szonyi calin wrote: --- Curtis Magyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] a crit : Hello. I seem to be having some trouble with a file on my JFS root partition in Linux 2.6.5. The problem presented itself when I attempted to rm -rf a directory, and it resulted in:

[Jfs-discussion] [ANNOUNCE] jfsutils 1.1.6

2004-04-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Release 1.1.6 of jfsutils was made available today. This release include the following changes to the utilities: - Verify Directory Index Table and reset it if necessary For more details about JFS, please see our website: http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux

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