JFS filesystem corruption and jfs_fsck

[Christopher Chan]

hello Michael,

Michael Peek wrote:
> Hi gurus,
>
> I have a server with a JFS filesystem on it that's gotten corrupted.  
> Maybe I just don't know how to use jfs_fsck, but it doesn't seem to be 
> doing the trick.  It prints out lots of filesystem errors but 
> apparently doesn't repair them.  Attached is a log of the output from 
> jfs_fsck.  The exit code from jfs_fsck is 134.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this?

 From the reported errors...are you sure the disks are still healthy? 
Are you using Seagate drives? I heard something about them drives having 
a coating that flakes off and eventually covers the disk heads and thus 
rendering the disk useless.


cheers,

Christopher