On 7/29/05, Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:47 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > One more thing, fsck find no errors.  the volume is clean.
> 
> Are you running a recent version of jfsutils?  Versions prior to 1.1.6
> don't do much to verify the directory table.  There was a big-endian
> related fix in 1.1.7.

1.1.7-1 from debian.

> 
> This won't explain what is causing the problem, but it may explain why
> fsck didn't complain.
> 
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On 7/29/05, Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > When copying large numbers of files, files start to dissappear, but
> > > they are not actually gone they just stop showing up.  when you delete
> > > enough files from the directory, all of a sudden all of the remaining
> > > files show up.
> 
> This is consistent with the log messages below.  The directory table is
> what helps readdir keep track of the current position within the
> directory.
> 
> > Also my kernel log is full of these:
> > >
> > > free_index: error reading directory table
> > > free_index: error reading directory table
> 
> I haven't had any other reports like this, but I don't think there are a
> lot of jfs users on sparc64.  I don't have much time to look at this
> right now, but will try to give it more attention next week.
> 

No problem.  thanks for your help.

Alex

> Thanks,
> Shaggy
> --
> David Kleikamp
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> 
>


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