Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:11:11 +0400
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
Cc: mason@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem
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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
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