On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:26:28 -0500 Steven Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 October 2003 13:18, Matt Garman wrote: > > Purusing the Gentoo FAQ, I ran across the following: > > > > "ReiserFS and filesystem corruption issues -- how to fix'em, etc > > > > If your ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Linux > > boot CD and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the corrupted filesystem. > > This should make the filesystem consistent again, although you may > > have lost some files or directories due to the corruption." > > > I'll share the one and only problem I've had with reiserfs. > > One day my system's kernel started to dump the registers and halt. I would > reboot and everything would be fine. I would login to the machine using > KDM/KDE and work away for a while then again the system would halt. I > couldn't figure out what was going on. > > I can't remember why I did it, but I booted the system without X and went to > clean out /tmp. When I did a 'rm -rf *' in temp the kernel dumped > registers and halted. I said and thought to myself WTF. After rebooting, > I selectively removed files from /tmp and found that when I tried to remove > one particular directory the system would halt. I decided to boot into > single user mode and run reiserfsck. When I did, reiserfsck reported it > found errors it could not fix and I would have to use the '--rebuild-tree' > option. I ran reiserfsck with the option and it fixed my problem without > loosing any data. I was able to remove everything from /tmp and not have > the kernel halt. > Hans Reiser may be a great guy, but you won't ever encounter problems like this with "sucky ole ext3" (per the troll). -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
