Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:33:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:33:31 -0400 Received: from betty.magenta-netlogic.com ([193.37.229.181]:7176 "HELO betty.magenta-netlogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:33:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3AE9913B.6090208@magenta-netlogic.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:33:15 +0100 From: Tony Hoyle Organization: Magenta Logic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.8.1+) Gecko/20010423 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jason Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel panic with 2.4.x and reiserfs In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jason wrote: > Hello, > > As the subject would imply, I've been having problems with 2.4.x. I have > my root partition (/dev/hda1) as reiserfs and also have another harddrive > with a reiserfs partition (/dev/hdc1). Several programs write (e.g. save > files to) /dev/hdc1, and I also store files there. Under 2.4.2, whenever > manually copying files from hda1 to hdc1, I would get a kernel panic, the Reiserfs doesn't cope well with crashes.... Under 2.4 I wouldn't recommend using it on any kind of critical server - it seems to progressively corrupt itself (I'm looking at the second reformat and reinstall in a week, and I'm not a happy bunny). As the warning on reiserfsck says, the rebuild-tree option is a last resort. It's as likely to make the problem worse then improve it (It rounds all the file lengths up to a block size, padding with zeros, which breaks lots of stuff). Backup what you can first. I find that if you run reiserfsck -x /dev/hda1 a couple of dozen times it slowly fixes stuff that it couldn't fix on the previous pass.One thing that can't fix is the bug that seems to make random files on the FS unreadable even for root.The only way I've found around that one is a periodic format/reinstall. Tony -- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1\2 tons. -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949 tmh@magenta-netlogic.com - 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/