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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:03:08 +0300
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: reiserfs bug
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Hello!

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:13:43AM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> >Sorry, but you seems to have faulty hardware (bad harddrive or something).
> >Reiserfs cannot tolerate bad blocks in journal area right now.
> >I'd suggest you to make a backup of your device and then to replace bad
> >harddrive.
> You still shouldn't panic the kernel in this case. IMHO.

Sure, panicking the kernel in case of a write error is not very nice thing to
do.
Jeff Mahoney (of SuSE) is working on improving this situation. He even
released a preview patch some time ago (on 7th May).

Bye,
    Oleg
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