On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:37 -0500, Will Constable wrote:
> Wow, I honestly did not expect a fix that obvious or easy to be the answer,
> but I ran it and immediately began throwing files across the network as fast
> as I can... so far, so good- I think its under control.  Thanks a million!

No problem.  The kernel code should still handle the corruption better,
but I know where it's happening.

> As a side note, this might be a good forum for the newbie question,

We kind of dropped the "forum".  I'm adding jfs-discussion back to cc:

>  why am I
> even using JFS?  I put it on because it was recommended by users of MythTV
> and I was building a MythTV box.  I am running a 5 drive raid-3 with 1.2 TB
> usable space.  Is JFS a good choice for a system that does a lot of reading
> and writing of video files, as well as used as a network server? 

I'm a bit biased, but jfs handles large files quite well.  I don't think
it's widely used in network servers, since I just recently found out
that quotas had been broken for quite some time.  If you're not using
quotas, I'm not aware of any other issues, though.

> Are there
> choices that are obviously better?

I haven't played with MythTV myself.  I thought about it, but directv
gave me a good deal on a dvr.  :-)  I think I've seen recommendations
for both xfs and jfs.  I don't know if one is clearly better than the
other.

> I appreciate your help!
> Thanks,
> Will Constable
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Kleikamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:24 PM
> To: Will Constable
> Subject: RE: [Jfs-discussion] Help with Samba+JFS
> 
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:23 -0500, Will Constable wrote:
> > Thanks for your response!  And I'm sorry about the HTML-- I cut and paste
> my
> > e-mail from my sent mail after having posted it to a samba list...
> 
> No problem.  I just wanted you to avoid a delay in the future, since
> anything that isn't plain-text gets caught until I can approve it.  99%
> is spam.
> 
> > I am able to easily reproduce this problem, so I did that for the purpose
> of
> > collecting messages.  What I did was set up a file sharing program that
> > operates on my campus network at high speed to download directly from my
> > laptop to my network server as a 'network drive' on windows.  After about
> 20
> > seconds I got a popup of which I attached a screenshot, and the following
> > messages to the console on my server.  If there are any more messages that
> I
> > can find by searching through certain logs or something, let me know and
> > I'll get them for you.  Hopefully you can find something out.
> 
> It looks like jfs is choking on corruption in the block map, and it
> doesn't handle it well.  Ideally, jfs marks the superblock dirty so that
> the next time fsck is run during boot, it will check the whole
> partition.  In this case, it is just trapping, so the superblock is not
> marked dirty, and fsck simply replays the journal, but doesn't fix the
> problem.
> 
> You should be able to fix it by unmounting the file system and running
> fsck -f against it.  I think this should fix the problem for you.  I'll
> look at making the proper fix in the kernel as well.
> 
> > Thanks for your help!!  Message is below...
> > -Will Constable
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaggy
> --
> David Kleikamp
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> 
> 
> 
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


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