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On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 02:25 -0500, Will Constable wrote: > I have a network server running FC5, with a hardware raid 3 card using > 5 drives, as one large (1.2TB) partition in JFS. I chose JFS because > of a recommendation for performance from a MythTV tutorial, but I > don't really know much about file systems and am suspecting JFS to be > causing my problems. I run samba, apache and MythTV on this machine, > and there is essentially only one problem as far as I know. > > If I write to my server from the network (only tested from windows XP > pc's using samba), I often get either an error in windows (Delayed > Write Failed), or windows freezes while writing. On the server side, > I generally get kernel messages from JFS that are completely > meaningless to me, just a bunch of cryptic numbers and function > calls. Could you please send me the cryptic kernel messages? > After one of these problems, I can't access the directory that was > being written to, or my prompt freezes. Rebooting seems to be the > only fix- jfs does some replaying and then the filesystem is perfect > again. This sounds a lot like a cut and dry problem with JFS… except > that MythTV does quite a lot of high intensity writing to the array > and never has trouble like this, yet it happens frequently when being > written to from samba. Still sounds like a jfs problem. samba shouldn't be able to cause jfs to trap (which is likely if some things hang up afterward). > First of all, is there any known problem with using JFS with samba? No. I'm sure you're running a pretty recent kernel on FC5, but can you tell me what the kernel level is? > Aside from that, I sort of figure maybe there is a samba configuration > option that is to blame. Possibly something to do with buffering or > with maximum throughput allowed… I am just guessing, but can anyone > help? It could be that something samba is doing is triggering a bug in jfs that can be avoided, but I'll know more after seeing the kernel error messages. Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
