Hi guys, I have a system here with the following setup: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 19072868 6260156 11843848 35% / /dev/hda1 198313 18161 169898 10% /boot /dev/md0 525461076 89626136 435834940 18% /raid /raid is the reiserfs volume. / is ext2. The only thing on /raid is some pcbackup stuff. The system entirely runs from the root drive (ext2 filesystem). Lately, reiserfs has been giving me problems. If I try to do anything on /raid - like vi a text file, the kernel will oops. But the system will stay up. All the services are there, and I can login. However, I cannot unmount the partition, or do anythinh else. Even if I call sync, it never returns. I can't even reboot the system, or shutdown my nfs services. Since all of the stuff is on the root drive, shouldn't linux be able to cope with such a situation? I know that filesystems do get corrupted every now and then, especially if they are in the beta stage. But such a malfunction should not keep the whole system from being shutdown. The only way now is to hit the magic reset button. With this, I loose a lot of data. I dont know when sync was called last, but when I tried to call it manually, it never returned. All the processes that are dealing with the /raid partition, are in STATE D, uninterruptible sleep, and cannot be killed. root 828 46.7 11.0 29628 28172 ? D 02:00 258:15 /opt/legato/usr/sbin/save -s lester.arraycomm.com -g Linux Servers -LL -f - -m bertha.arraycomm.com -l full -q -W 78 -N /raid /raid root 1599 0.0 0.2 1452 548 pts/4 D 10:40 0:00 umount /dev/md0 root 1634 0.0 0.2 1452 548 pts/6 D 10:45 0:00 umount /dev/md0 I'd appreciate any help. Thank you. Jasmeet. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
