Tim Nufire wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Corrupt JFS root nodes continue to plague my Debian 5 based servers
> running 2.6.26 and 2.6.32 kernels... This is a big problem for us so I
> spent last week learning enough about JFS to create a test script
> which reproduces the problems -- I'm hoping this is enough for the
> folks on this list to fix the bug :-) I've emailed this list about
> this problem before.. For the old thread, see:
> 
>     Corrupt JFS root nodes on volumes with 500+ top level directories
> 
> My test platform is a fully patched clean install of Debian 5.0.8 on a
> VMWare host. To reproduce the problem:
> 
> 1) Format a drive (/dev/sdb) volume with JFS (volume size does not
> matter) 2) In a loop, create one permanent file and create and delete
> a temporary file (tmp) 10 times 3) Exit the loop when jfs_fsck reports
> an error
> 
> Here's a Bash script that will do the above and corrupts a JFS file
> system in just a few minutes:

I can confirm what Tim is saying here, including the number 984. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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