On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 17:36 -0400, Daniel Savard wrote:
> I am having a strange problem. I am running my Linux on the Gentoo
> LiveCD 2008.0 and after creating a Logical Volume (LVM2) and making the
> JFS filesystem on it, I ran a fsck and it failed. Here is my terminal
> session:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> livecd ~ # lvcreate --autobackup y --size 20G --name vicepa rootvg
>   Logical volume "vicepa" created
> livecd ~ # mkfs.jfs /dev/rootvg/vicepa
> mkfs.jfs version 1.1.8, 03-May-2005
> Warning!  All data on device /dev/rootvg/vicepa will be lost!
> 
> Continue? (Y/N) y
>    \
> 
> Format completed successfully.
> 
> 20971520 kilobytes total disk space.
> livecd ~ # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> tmpfs                  1037544     25108   1012436   3% /
> /dev/hda                 81442     81442         0 100% /mnt/cdrom
> /dev/loop0               55424     55424         0 100% /mnt/livecd
> udev                     10240       216     10024   3% /dev
> tmpfs                  1037544      1852   1035692
> 1% /mnt/livecd/lib/firmware
> tmpfs                  1037544         0   1037544
> 0% /mnt/livecd/usr/portage
> livecd ~ # fsck.jfs /dev/rootvg/vicepa
> fsck.jfs version 1.1.8, 03-May-2005

Ouch.  I need to get gentoo to unmask a newer version.

Can you emerge a more recent jfsutils and see if it helps?  (I don't use
the livecd, but I assume you can update a package.)  That said, I'm not
aware of a particular bug that was fixed, but version 1.1.8 is pretty
old.

> processing started: 9/10/2008 21.41.5
> Using default parameter: -p
> The current device is:  /dev/rootvg/vicepa
> ujfs_rw_diskblocks: Input/output error
> ujfs_rw_diskblocks: Input/output error
> Superblock is corrupt and cannot be repaired 
> since both primary and secondary copies are corrupt.  
> 
>  CANNOT CONTINUE.
> livecd ~ # 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Someone is having an idea of what is going wrong. I am running this on
> an old IBM Netfinity server with RAID adapter and 5 drives in the
> physical volume viewed as a single drive. There is no amber drive light
> on indicating a problem. So, I assume the hardware is properly working
> here.

I'm assuming that the hardware is okay, since mkfs.jfs worked.  If a
newer jfsutils doesn't work, could you run fsck.jfs under strace so I
can see what it's trying to do?

strace -o strace.out fsck.jfs /dev/rootvg/vicepa

Thanks,
Shaggy
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


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