Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:15:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:15:49 -0500 Received: from d83b5259.dsl.flashcom.net ([216.59.82.89]:23170 "EHLO home.lameter.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:15:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:14:57 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Chris Mason cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ReiserFS phenomenon with 2.4.2 ac24/ac12 In-Reply-To: <317470000.985716174@tiny> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > Just to make sure I understand, you had the exact same errors before > running fsck? Same files could not be deleted? Correct. > > I think this is a problem with the reiserfs code in the kernel. I never > > ran reiserfsck before this problem surfaced. The problem arose in the > > netscape cache directory with lots of small files. Guess the tail handling > > is not that stable yet? > > I wish I could blame it on the tail code ;-) None of the bugs fixed there > would have caused this, and they should be completely unrelated. I'll try > some tests in oom situations to try and reproduce. It could also be caused > by hashing errors. If you formatted with r5 hash, was the partition ever > incorrectly detected as tea hash? No idea. I never got that deep into reiser. > > How do I get rid of the /a/yy directory now? > > With fsck. I'll grab the latest today and make sure it can fix this bug. > Until then, mv /a/yy /a/yy.broken and mkdir /a/yy. /a/yy is already a "broken" dir moved out of the way. - 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/