[Samba] Help with Samba+JFS

[Matt Skerritt]

Hmmm ... I'd have a look at your network card first - I've seen those  
delayed write errors caused by the network giving out in some form or  
another during the file transfer. In one case I had a very similar  
problem caused by a power dip that happened whilst a workstation was  
writing to the share. I've also had them when a flaky network card  
was being used in a server.

Next time it happens, do a ps aux (or whatever the equivalent is on  
your platform), and see if any of your processes are in the "D" state  
(uninterruptable sleep) - if so, then that's why you have to reboot  
to get access to the folder again.

Also you may want to try using ssh or ftp or somesuch to see how the  
transfer speeds to your machine work (ie, test how it works without  
samba). I'd recommend small and large files for the test.

On 10/12/2006, at 6:00 AM, Will Constable wrote:

> I have a network server running FC5, with a hardware raid 3 card  
> using 5
> drives, as one large (1.2TB) partition in JFS.  I chose JFS because  
> of a
> recommendation for performance from a MythTV tutorial, but I don't  
> really
> know much about file systems and am suspecting JFS to be causing my
> problems.  I run samba, apache and MythTV on this machine, and  
> there is
> essentially only one problem as far as I know.
>
>
>
> If I write to my server from the network (only tested from windows  
> XP pc's
> using samba), I often get either an error in windows (Delayed Write  
> Failed),
> or windows freezes while writing.  On the server side, I generally get
> kernel messages from JFS that are completely meaningless to me,  
> just a bunch
> of cryptic numbers and function calls.  After one of these  
> problems, I can't
> access the directory that was being written to, or my prompt freezes.
> Rebooting seems to be the only fix- jfs does some replaying and  
> then the
> filesystem is perfect again.  This sounds a lot like a cut and dry  
> problem
> with JFS. except that MythTV does quite a lot of high intensity  
> writing to
> the array and never has trouble like this, yet it happens  
> frequently when
> being written to from samba.
>
>
>
> First of all, is there any known problem with using JFS with  
> samba?  Aside
> from that, I sort of figure maybe there is a samba configuration  
> option that
> is to blame.  Possibly something to do with buffering or with maximum
> throughput allowed. I am just guessing, but can anyone help?
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Will
>
> willconstable at gmail.com
>
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Matt Skerritt
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