Jacob Herbold wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've looked around and can't seem to find a solution to this problem.
>
> I'm upgrading an existing system with additional storage capacity and will be
>reinstalling linux,
> however I was checking things out first and ran into this problem.
>
> First off I'm not sure this is a JFS problem at all, but I haven't had probelms with
>these disks
> until I tried JFS on them. I hope someone might suggest how I can shine some light
>on what's going
> on.
>
> Using redhat 7.0, 2.4.17 kernel with JFS 2.4-1.0.15-patch, used kgcc to compile the
>kernel with
> JFS as a module. System is a dual pentium 233 MMX with a Promise 100TX2 ATA-100
>(PDC202658 chip)
> card on the PCI bus. I boot from the IDE drive attached to the 430HX chipset's ATA
>controller on
> the motherboard. I'm not using the ATA-100 disks for anything but testing right now.
>
> Here's what happens: when the benchmark, bonnie++, deletes many files from the
>partition, it hangs
> and I am unable to kill it. If I am quick I can halt the system and reboot.
>Otherwise it freezes
> completely (no echo on consoles) and I'm forced to do a hardware reset.
What level of bonnie++ are you using and what are the parameters you
are starting bonnie++ with?
>
> While I recompiled with JFS debugging on, and changed /etc/syslog.conf to see debug
>info in the
> logs I haven't seen
> anything. I've run the same test on the disks using ext2 and ext3 partitions and
>seen no problems.
> At first I was using software raid 0. However, even without raid, the same test on a
>JFS formated
> partition caused the same problem. The only messages I have seen are a waring about
>an old MD
> ioctl:
> "md: fsck.jfs(pid 1045) used obsolete MD ioctl, upgrade your software to use new
>ictls."
>
> Please, what can I do to find out where the problem is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jake
>
Steve
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