Hello On Wednesday 06 September 2006 12:01, Joe Feise wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that fsck.reiser4 -a doesn't do anything. It doesn't even detect > corruption.
I think it is made that way with intention. If fsck.reiser4 -a did corruption detection bootup process would take long time and users would not have the main advantage of journalled filesystems - quick recovering after unclean shutdown. > I had a /var corruption (reiser4 on /var) over the weekend, and since I was > out of town, the machine was hanging trying to go into multi-user mode I guess here you got reiser4 bug where it hanged trying to access corrupted partition instead of returning -EIO. Was there anything interesting in logs and have you managed to catch them? > for > a day before I could fix the corruption manually. An fsck that actually > would do some automatic repairs (e.g., like ext3 which I use as the root > partition) would be really helpful. > For now, I have resorted to --fix -y at bootup time for all my reiser4 > partitions, but that's just a quick hack, and rather unsatisfactory. > > Cheers, > -Joe