Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030271AbWECRsf (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 13:48:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030272AbWECRse (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 13:48:34 -0400 Received: from mail.priv.de ([80.237.225.190]:41390 "EHLO mail.priv.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030271AbWECRse (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 13:48:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4458ECF6.8060602@priv.de> Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 19:48:38 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_M=FCller?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Steinmetz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reiserfsck dies References: <4458C48B.8040703@priv.de> <4458E619.8090501@priv.de> <4458E8C4.3060902@domdv.de> In-Reply-To: <4458E8C4.3060902@domdv.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1474 Lines: 38 Hi Andreas Steinmetz, > Markus M?ller wrote: > >> no, the hdd is a software raid 5, /dev/md0, which is piped through aes >> via cryptsetup, so it is accessed via /dev/mapper/hdb >> > > My experience with such a stacking and reiserfs was horrible. Continous > filesystem corruption that finally required reformatting. I then > replaced reiserfs with ext3 and the stacking works since then. > > It is not a dm-crypt problem as the symptoms also occurred with > raid5/lvm2/reiserfs, so any raidx/dm/reiserfs stacking seems to be only > something for the more adventurous folks. Thus I don't know if the > problem still exists with current kernels. > Ok, maybe. I try now to insert 512 MB more RAM into the machine, more than 1 Gig I don't have for this system. I only want the raid to work just one time, cause there is data I want to (but not in any case) be secured. Then I again install ext3 on it... this worked on this raid without any problems at all. And the fsck is about 2 houres, not 28 hours (--rebuild-tree). I don't think my kernel is to old, do you? stacker:/# uname -a Linux stacker.websrv.de 2.6.16.9 #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 30 09:44:06 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux stacker:/# Regards, Markus Mueller - 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/