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 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?).
Okay. In my own risk. Please, but advert about dangerous steps.
I'm not sure that I understood you correctly: Did you mean withCan you will help me for migrating one partition to jfs and detecting the possible bug?that your harddrive is already formated and contains data. Here you'd probably need anyway backup to a different location before switching to another filesystem. And then, the plan is the same as if the harddrivewould be empty.If your harddrive is still empty, I suggest that you just reserve one partition for the testing and later overwrite it the final partition. For debian, 10G is more than plenty space. If you choose ext2 for the time being, you can also later resize the partion, if you favour a one-partition solution.
I have this partition table: | hda1 | Primary - ext3 | / | 10 GB | | hda2 | Primary - swap | swap | 2 GB | | hda3 | Primary - ext3 | /home | 3 GB | | hda5 | Logic - ext3 | /var | 9 GB | | hda6 | Logic - ext3 | /var/log | 1 GB | | hda7 | Logic - ext3 | /chrut | 2 GB | | hda8 | Logic - ext2 | /segur | 2 GB | | hda9 | Logic - Non formated | **for testing JFS** | 10 GB | | hda10 | Logic - | Non formated | 1 GB | So we could try it in hda9.
For the procedure to find the bug, I have to recall my memories... Just tell me if you ready to try it, and I try to assemble these memories into a mail ;-)
When I have completed the installation, I will answer in this thread and you could say what I have to do for test it. I think that we could maintain this thread open, because perhaps Martin could be interested in the results.
Regards, Xan.
coldtobi On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 18:19 +0200, Xan wrote: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 andthen -- 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 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 probably a not solved bug....After installing one could part I it with [xj]js: However, I got servere filesystem issues both with xfs and jfs. I don't know which one causes which problem, but be warned: - One of these created only a partion of 5-hundred-something Megabytes on a 700G space. Couldn't convince it .... - The other one partitinoed fine, but during benchmarking [as far as i remember I used ltp - The Linux Test Project test suite] I got filesystem corruptions. On top xfs-fsck segfaulted on this. It occured at least two times in a row, so I expect a bug rather coincidence However, I did not debug the issue. The problem could be gone (as thiswas at 2.6.18), but you should be aware of it.Wow!!. Could anyone confirm if these bugs are fixed? If don't, I will think to pass to classical ext3 ;-) Regards, Xan.coldtobi On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 16:11 +0200, Xan wrote:Hi,I have a nslu2. Yesterday I downloaded debian armel-5.0beta2 from [http://www.slug-firmware.net/d-dls.php] and followed the instructions from [http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install.html] (I flashed with upslug2 my slug).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 have a bug or so? Can anyone help me: now I have a aborted installation in my slug. Thanks a lot, Xan.