Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:09:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:09:00 -0400 Received: from roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com ([24.169.102.121]:53770 "EHLO roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:08:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:08:10 -0400 From: Chris Mason To: Tony Hoyle , jason cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel panic with 2.4.x and reiserfs Message-ID: <271930000.988387690@tiny> In-Reply-To: <3AE9913B.6090208@magenta-netlogic.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday, April 27, 2001 04:33:15 PM +0100 Tony Hoyle wrote: > 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). Could you please forward along the details of these corruptions (including hardware)? > > 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. It shouldn't always do this, most of the time it has enough info to get the size right. Which reiserfsck did you use? -chris - 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/