ewr@erols.com | 24 Aug 2011 22:57
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4TB JFS Filesystem fsck problem

Hi -

I have an older machine with a 4.5TB JFS partition that will not fsck after an unclean shutdown.

Here is the attempted fsck output:

root <at> backup# fsck.jfs -fav /dev/sda1
fsck.jfs version 1.1.15, 04-Mar-2011
processing started: 8/24/2011 12:51:03
The current device is:  /dev/sda1
Open(...READ/WRITE EXCLUSIVE...) returned rc = 0
Primary superblock is valid.
The type of file system for the device is JFS.
Block size in bytes:  4096
Filesystem size in blocks:  1098616311
**Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log
LOGREDO:  Unrecognized log record type at 0x0fb4b8c.
log redo failed (rc=-269).  fsck continuing.
**Phase 1 - Check Blocks, Files/Directories, and  Directory Entries
Insufficient dynamic storage available for required workspace (1,6).  CANNOT CONTINUE
processing terminated:  8/24/2011  15:24:48  with return code: -10097  exit code: 8.

It appears the problem we are experiencing is very similar to this one:
http://www.mail-archive.com/jfs-discussion <at> lists.sourceforge.net/msg00255.html

The hardware in question is an 8 disk 3ware array in RAID5+1.  The computer is an old Celeron with 1GB of ram,
though it does have plenty of swap.

root <at> backup:~# uname -a
Linux backup 2.6.37.6-smp #2 SMP Sat Apr 9 23:39:07 CDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz
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Gmane