Hay all. A few nights ago, I left my machine on over night whilst ripping some cds. The file names were rather long (>20). In the morning all was fine until I rebooted at which point the / partition refused to mount and the entire system became unusable.
The fault was ReiserFS: I seems that BugTraq amoungst others have found faults with reiserfs in its handling of files under certain conditions. This is the second time in 2 months that reiserfs has caused me to do a reinstallation, and after this one, I'm now starting to see kernel oops' elsewhere. I seriously recommend that if at all possible you get off reiserfs and back onto ext2 for at least a couple of months. I rapidly compiling 2.4.3 here to try and remove the bugs in reiserfs. But if it takes out my /usr partition then I really am *ucked as there is no backup and I don't have enough spare space to copy and convert back to ext2. There are already areas which I can not access - I get reiserfs errors - when trying to ls certain directories which unfortunately is part of the perl libs structure, thus rendering debconf useless and thus I am having huge problems installing anything that depends on debconf. Does anyone know whether these faults can be fixed? I've tried reiserfsck to no avail: it doesn't even report a fault. But I'm sitting here wondering just how much time I'll have before the whole thing goes.... Despondantly, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing
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