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On 2/9/07, J. Scott Kasten <jscottkasten@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm interested in your data point. Do you happen to remember about which |
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> kernel that was? There was some general badness that affected multiple |
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> file systems in late 2.6.13 on into 2.6.14 or so in the way that you |
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> describe. Not sure they ever really knew what the smoking gun was. |
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> Used JFS for about 6 months with the gentoo mips 2.6.13 kernel and did |
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> not find any issues. Briefly with Sparc32, but don't remember |
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> which kernel. On Intel, I've done extensive regressions with it. |
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> If anyone is interested, I have a thrasher script written specifically for |
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> this purpose. It's a multi-threaded ruby script that creates a randomized |
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> directory tree, with random files, containing random data. A CRC check is |
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> kept on each file. The threads run in parallel rewriting data in the |
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> middle of files, truncating, resizing, creating voids, forcing the file |
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> system into writing multiple extents, exercising tail packing, unlinking |
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> files with open handles, etc... |
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http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7852301&forum_id=43911 |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/sparclinux@×××××××××××.org/msg00333.html |
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Alex |
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> -S- |
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> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Alex Deucher wrote: |
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> > On 2/9/07, J. Scott Kasten <jscottkasten@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Be careful. I tried to use JFS on some sparc boxes, and ran into some |
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> > subtle bugs that no one seemed to be able to solve that led to |
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> > filesystem corruption: things like disappearing/reappearing files and |
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> > directories. On the other hand I've had no problems with JFS on AMD64 |
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> > or x86. |
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> > Alex |
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