On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:02:01 +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > Hello > > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 22:47, Peter wrote: >> I booted from a non-reiser4 partition in order to make a backup of my main >> / which was a r4 partition. >> >> After the backup, I unmounted the drive explicitly, then rebooted. >> >> I did not use the backed up drive for anything except tar-ring its files. >> >> On next boot to the r4 / partition, all kinds of file not found errors >> occurred. I booted again to my non-r4 partition, and ran fsck.reiser4 >> --check -y there were fatal errors on my r4 /. >> >> The backup was fine. I downgraded back to reiserfs which does not exhibit >> this problem. >> >> I have not experienced any problem with other r4 partitions. Just /. >> /home, /tmp, /src, etc. are fine. >> >> Unfortunately, I don't have time to keep wondering where the problem is or >> why. Perhaps it's the kernel or the init scripts. Nonetheless, the >> instability of whatever the problem is is unnerving. >> > > Please provide information about which kernel and which reiser4 did you use. > Am I correct that you were trying to run gentoo on reiser4?
Yes, Vladimir. When making the backup, I was not running Gentoo at all. I was running Slackware 10.2. I booted into Slackware with the beyond patchset (ck superset) based on 2.6.17.11 with the reiser4 2.6.17-3 patch. All of the work on backup mount and unmount was on Slackware. It was when rebooting back into Gentoo (with the init and base layout which DID NOT CAUSE a boot problem) that the fatal errors occurred. Interestingly, and maybe this is helpful, only the / partition seems to be affected. I have observed no problematic behavior with any of the other three partitions I used r4 for. In fact, even though I downgraded / to reiserfs3, the other r4 partitions work fine. Please let me know if I can provide additional information. -- Peter +++++ Do not reply to this email, it is a spam trap and not monitored. I can be reached via this list, or via jabber: pete4abw at jabber.org ICQ: 73676357
