I recently purchased a Soekris net4801 [1] along with its hard drive kit
and a Toshiba laptop drive.  I've run into an unusual bug that I can
consistently reproduce with this machine when using JFS, but not when
using ext3 or xfs.

If I try untaring something, kicking off a kernel build, or do anything
else that's IO intensive on a JFS filesystem, the process will get stuck
in uninterruptible sleep within a minute or two.  This only occurs with
kernels 2.6.17.x or newer; Kernels 2.6.16.x and earlier don't seem to
have this bug.

Selecting CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG doesn't seem to shed any further light into
this issue.

I was unable to reproduce this behavior when I moved the Toshiba hard drive
to an old Thinkpad I had laying around.

What are the next steps I should take in debugging this?


Thanks,

Matt


[1] http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm

-- 
Matthew Moen

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