On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:13:41AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > Also, I had previously seen this in the 2.4.x kernels that we were > > running prior to upgrading to 2.6.12.4. However, since then, I did run > > a fsck.jfs -f. > > I guess there were no other suspicious errors in the syslog? I'd like
Correct. > to know what fsck.jfs found. If you haven't fixed it yet, could you > send me the output of 'fsck.jfs -v'? I don't know what may have > triggered the corruption that led to the error. Unfortunately, it already ran, and even more unfortunately, I was getting firewall traps spewed to the console at the same time, so I couldn't really see what it found. > > Running jfsutils 1.1.7 on Debian, kernel.org kernel. > > There is a problem fixed in jfsutils-1.1.8 that could cause an xtree to > become corrupt when replaying the journal, but I don't know how likely > you are to encounter that bug. It wouldn't hurt to upgrade to 1.1.8. We had a series of crashes on this machine, about once a week, about a month ago. This was back when we were running kernel 2.4.x and an even older jfsutils. When I upgraded to 2.6.x, if memory serves, I upgraded the kernel, then the jfsutils, then I ran a fsck just to be on the safe side. There were some errors detected, but I don't really remember what. I then expanded one of the filesystems, did a JFS resize, and I think I ran fsck again (and it came back clean). But I can't completely guarantee the latter. This was 11 days ago, and the system has not been down since. This is the first we've seen any of these problems. I don't really know what an xtree is, but if it's possible that some data relating to infrequently-used files or directories was to blame, it's entirely possible that those files/directories weren't accessed for 11 days. -- John ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
