On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:14 -0400, Daniel Savard wrote:
> About each time I am updating the device-mapper on my Linux servers I am
> getting filesystem corruption. It ends up into a major crash, the system
> won't reboot properly and vital files are missing or gone empty.
> 
> Is there a trick somewhere I should know about to avoid this?

It sounds like a device-mapper issue.  Everything LVM2 and device-mapper
do should be transparent to the file system.

> I am running Gentoo, LVM2 and device-mapper. I am about to wipe-out JFS
> from all my servers given the amount of downtime and all the hassle it
> is to maintain the JFS up and running cleanly.

> Yes, /usr, /var and /tmp are JFS. / is ext3.

Is / on an LVM2 volume as well?  If device-mapper is having issues, I'm
not sure that a different file system would handle it any better.
However, if there were any syslog messages related to the file system
corruption or crash, they could shed some light on this.

> TIA

Anyone with LVM2 experience, feel free to chime in.  :-)

Thanks,
Shaggy
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


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