Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265281AbTFUTSl (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:18:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265284AbTFUTSl (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:18:41 -0400 Received: from kuwiserv.folkwang-hochschule.de ([193.175.156.250]:65487 "EHLO kuwiserv.folkwang-hochschule.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265281AbTFUTSk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:18:40 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF4C0CC.6090100@folkwang-hochschule.de> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:32:12 +0200 From: Joern Nettingsmeier Reply-To: nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-audio-dev@music.columbia.edu Subject: severe FS corruption w/ reiserfs and 2.5.72-bk3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1914 Lines: 51 a word of warning: i just completely and utterly trashed my filesystems with 2.5.72-bk2 and reiserfs. there are metric shitloads of errors on journal replay and i end up in repair mode. did a couple of --rebuild-tree's, but new errors cropped up after every reboot. happens both on scsi and ide drives and ate almost all of my machine... my reiserfstools are recent (can't recall the version, but it's better than or equal to the one listed in Documentation/Changes). otoh, it seems i had two versions installed, the one that comes with suse 8.1 in /sbin/ and mine in /usr/local/sbin. after realizing the problem, i moved the current version over to /sbin so that it is invoked on startup... might have made the problem worse. unfortunately i did a number of things at once: upgrade the kernel from .72 (which has worked for me quite well), add an ide drive (i didn't have ide in my kernel before, and geez! is that module code broken :)) and shuffle partitions around. which makes the problem hard to pinpoint. if anyone wants me to do some forensics on the machine, speak up. otherwise i'll swipe it clean and start over from scratch. best, j?rn (i'd appreciate a cc: of your replies. thanks.) -- All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations. -- Charter of the United Nations, Article 2.4 J?rn Nettingsmeier Kurf?rstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ (Linux Audio Developers) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/