Re: [Jfs-discussion] running complete filesystem check with 100.000s of files

[Per J. <pe...@co...>]

Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Wed, April 30, 2008 07:53, Per Jessen wrote:
>> This is a old(ish) SMP system, running 2.4.33, jfsutils 1.1.7.  I tried
>> upgrading to 1.1.11, but had to back down to 1.1.7 as the new utils
>> refused to do an fsck.
> 
> Hm, I would've assumed current jfsutils would run no matter what the
> kernel version was or how old the system is. What was the error message
> when jfs_fsck refused to run?

I'm not sure, I think it complained about the superblock.

>> The filesystem is about 140Gb in total of which 90Gb is
>> used.  It's backed by a  softwarea RAID5 software I'm guessing the
> 
> Hm, did you try to boot off a rescue-CD [0] with more current
> jfsutils/kernel?
> Not that I know why this would help, but when doing fsck I tend to use the
> latest and the greatest fsck tools.

Yeah, I did boot a opensuse 10.2 system, which I think is how I noticed
the problem with jfsutils 1.1.11.

Btw, the fsck is still running, but at least it doesn't seem to have
found any errors since early this morning.


/Per