Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268304AbTGIN4i (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:56:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268260AbTGIN4h (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:56:37 -0400 Received: from angband.namesys.com ([212.16.7.85]:31399 "EHLO angband.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268270AbTGIN4d (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:56:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:11:11 +0400 From: Oleg Drokin To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: mason@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem Message-ID: <20030709141111.GK18307@namesys.com> References: <20030706183453.74fbfaf2.skraw@ithnet.com> <1057515223.20904.1315.camel@tiny.suse.com> <20030709140138.141c3536.skraw@ithnet.com> <1057757764.26768.170.camel@tiny.suse.com> <20030709134837.GJ18307@namesys.com> <20030709155803.2d1569a8.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030709155803.2d1569a8.skraw@ithnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1316 Lines: 31 Hello! On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 03:58:03PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > Step one is to figure out if the problem is reiserfs or 3ware. Instead > > > of mounting the filesystem, run debugreiserfs -d /dev/xxxx > /dev/null > > > and see if you still hang. > > > This will read the FS metadata and should generate enough io to trigger > > > the hang if it is a 3ware problem. > Ok, I tried this. debugreiserfs runs without any problems. Disks show quite an > activity, the whole thing lasts 1-2 minutes. > mount afterwards shows the same hang. Hm. > > Or if this one suceeds, then may be reiserfsck --check /dev/xxxx to get > > journal replayed. This is in case access pattern matters. > I can try that, too. What do you expect to see? Well, it will either hang or not, I think. It it won't hang, this will complicate matters. Then next step would be probably to try and mount the partition from usermodelinux if you are able to conduct such a test. I am still pretty skeptical about the possibility that recent reiserfs changes broke stuff. Bye, Oleg - 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/