Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-09-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Xan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-07 10:45]: Thanks a lot, Martin. Maybe you could mark is as experimental I don't think this is possible. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-09-07 Thread Xan
En/na Martin Michlmayr ha escrit: * Xan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-26 16:31]: So, it seems that jfs is good. Perhaps you (Martin) could include in d-i as an option. I'm uploading new installer kernels for armel right now that contain JFS. Thanks a lot, Martin. Maybe you could mark

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-09-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Xan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-26 16:31]: So, it seems that jfs is good. Perhaps you (Martin) could include in d-i as an option. I'm uploading new installer kernels for armel right now that contain JFS. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:08:24PM +0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-27 17:05]: The ARM XFS fix that got into 2.6.27 is also in our 2.6.26 kernel. However, if you want to try 2.6.27-rc4, I can build it for arm. I tested with 2.6.26-3 from

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-28 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 10:24 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Tobi: Are you going to take this upstream to the XFS devels or linux-kernel? Gaudenz Yes, but not before the weekend... (I plan to do some tests with 2.6.27 by my own.) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-27 Thread Tobias Frost
So now I have a image prepared, which I can upload somewhere on request. (approx 26 MB gziped) As building the image, I had the impression that the corruption occured when I deleted some files. Can someone please try the xfs on their machines, I'd like to verify this and maybe report the

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:02:57AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: So now I have a image prepared, which I can upload somewhere on request. (approx 26 MB gziped) As building the image, I had the impression that the corruption occured when I deleted some files. Can someone please try the

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-27 11:56]: I can confirm the corruption also happens on my Thecus N2100 running kernel 2.6.24 with the DMA patches from Dan Williams. I've noticed that some XFS fixes got into 2.6.27-rc4. Martin built some Debian packages of this kernel

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-27 Thread Xan
En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit: So now I have a image prepared, which I can upload somewhere on request. (approx 26 MB gziped) As building the image, I had the impression that the corruption occured when I deleted some files. Can someone please try the xfs on their machines, I'd like to verify

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:19:13PM +0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-27 11:56]: I can confirm the corruption also happens on my Thecus N2100 running kernel 2.6.24 with the DMA patches from Dan Williams. I've noticed that some XFS fixes got

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-27 17:05]: The ARM XFS fix that got into 2.6.27 is also in our 2.6.26 kernel. However, if you want to try 2.6.27-rc4, I can build it for arm. I tested with 2.6.26-3 from unstable. I also get the corruption with this kernel. Are you sure that

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-27 Thread Tobias Frost
I'm running armel. thecus:~/#uname -a Linux thecus.coldtobi.ip 2.6.26-1-iop32x #1 Fri Aug 8 23:42:37 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux Tobias: Are you running arm or armel? The XFS on arm bug referenced in the kernel changelog suggests that at least some parts of the problem may be arm

XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-26 Thread Tobias Frost
After making some test off-list together with Xan, I decided to get back on the list, after I got my first results. Here's a snippet from the conversation off-list, to help everyone understanding what we were doing. Thanks Tobias for the intro: * The mounting process was OK. * Why

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-26 Thread Tobias Frost
So, part copied and did some testing... I'll attach a transcipt. Abstract: This time xfs_repair did not fail, but the corruption reoccured immediatly. I will prepare a test-image of the partition, if someone is interested. (I just have to nullify the swap before.) thecus:~#xfs_check /dev/md1

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:19:47AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: So, part copied and did some testing... I'll attach a transcipt. Abstract: This time xfs_repair did not fail, but the corruption reoccured immediatly. I will prepare a test-image of the partition, if someone is interested. (I

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-26 Thread Xan
En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit: So, part copied and did some testing... I'll attach a transcipt. Abstract: This time xfs_repair did not fail, but the corruption reoccured immediatly. I will prepare a test-image of the partition, if someone is interested. (I just have to nullify the swap

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-26 Thread Xan
Hi, I test my jfs and it seems all OK. I test by doing the following: - I download kernel source from kernel.org and uncompress it - copy / from my slug to /arxius/prova (my jfs partition) - download ubuntu into /arxius - download ltp - cp /arxius/prova /arxius/prova2 -r umount and fsck the

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-25 Thread Xan
En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit: Sure, I gonna try to help you. Please test only if you feel confident to do so, as I don't want you to break your nslu. (I have a Thecus, and on this I now how to load a recovery system. But on the nslu, I have not glue) I'm not sure that I understood you

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-24 Thread Rod Whitby
Fernando Carolo wrote: re-flashing a slug with upslug2 is safe, unless you mess with RedBoot using --Complete-reprogram. That option is not even enabled in any binary distribution of upslug2 that I'm aware of. You have to manually edit the source code and recompile it yourself to enable that

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Tobias Frost
When I installed my Thecus N2100, I had the same. But thats half an year ago. (As I wanted xfs not for the root fs it was not an issue. The partition planed to hold this fs was a dm-mapped (luKS-crypted) one) After installing one could part I it with [xj]js: However, I got servere filesystem

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Xan
First of all, thanks for answering En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit: When I installed my Thecus N2100, I had the same. But thats half an year ago. (As I wanted xfs not for the root fs it was not an issue. The partition planed to hold this fs was a dm-mapped (luKS-crypted) one) So, it's

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Xan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-22 16:11]: Well, in module selection step I choose, among others partman-jfs for formating my usb harddisk, but when I format one partition, JFS does not appears among options. If I choose partman-xfs for example xfs appears among these. So it seems we

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Tobias Frost
You could test it Make an ext3 for root, just big enough for debian, install debian and then -- like I did -- make a data partition to play with. If the bug is still there, it will manifest rather quick. On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:20 +0200, Xan wrote: First of all, thanks for

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Xan
En/na Martin Michlmayr ha escrit: * Xan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-22 16:11]: Well, in module selection step I choose, among others partman-jfs for formating my usb harddisk, but when I format one partition, JFS does not appears among options. If I choose partman-xfs for example xfs

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Xan
OKay. / and all other patitions are ext3 (except of one that are ext2). Can you will help me for migrating one partition to jfs and detecting the possible bug? Thanks, Xan. En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit: You could test it Make an ext3 for root, just big enough for debian, install debian

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Tobias Frost
Sure, I gonna try to help you. Please test only if you feel confident to do so, as I don't want you to break your nslu. (I have a Thecus, and on this I now how to load a recovery system. But on the nslu, I have not glue) I'm not sure that I understood you correctly: Did you mean with Can you

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Xan
En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit: Sure, I gonna try to help you. Please test only if you feel confident to do so, as I don't want you to break your nslu. (I have a Thecus, and on this I now how to load a recovery system. But on the nslu, I have not glue) Thanks a lot, Tobias. I want to try

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Fernando Carolo
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Xan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to try it. I don't want break my slug too, but I think that if all is wrong, we could re-upslug2 it (and start again) (please, could anyone confirm that in any case reflashing image could be a solution?). Xan, re-flashing a

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Xan
En/na Fernando Carolo ha escrit: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Xan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to try it. I don't want break my slug too, but I think that if all is wrong, we could re-upslug2 it (and start again) (please, could anyone confirm that in any case reflashing image could be