On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 00:41 -0400, Matt Moen wrote: > 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.
I'm pretty confident that this patch will fix it (sorry for the long url): http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=05ec9e26be1f668ccba4ca54d9a4966c6208c611 This is fixed in 2.6.21.2, and it's queued for 2.6.20.14. > 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? I hope that patch fixes things. If not, please let me know. > Thanks, > > Matt > > > [1] http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
