I have also had problems with Reiserfs, i had random missing files as
you said below, and also kept getting messages in the console re 'seek
error on hda' or something similar.
I quickly formatted and went back to ext2, and i havnt seen those
horrible messages again (phew).
>----------
>From: Maxim Heijndijk[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Reply To: Maxim Heijndijk
>Sent: 06 July 2001 12:05
>To: Expert
>Subject: Re: [expert] Rescue flop for Reiserfs ?
>
>* Stardate: 2001-07-04 14:45
>* Incoming subspace signal from civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
>
>> On Tuesday 03 July 2001 20:57, you wrote:
>> > Does anyone know if there is a rescue flop with wich you can check
>> > your reiserfs partitions. Reiserfs is not without flaws. I have
>> > lost libraries at several occasions.
>> Can you detail these instances? A technical decision must be made
>> here soon on whtether to keep Reiser or put it into contribs an
>> whether or not to adopt XFS. So far our attempts to break XFS have
>> been rebuffed, but we have occasionally been able to break reiser
>> default mounts. Reiser notail mounts we could not break, but they
>> have been known to generate kernel Oopses during shutdown.
>
>I don't know what 'default' and 'notail' mounts are.
>
>> As for a boot system, well use the rescue CD F1 at the splash screen
>> and rescue then
>> # modprobe reiserfs
>> # mount (rootpart) /mnt
>> # chroot mount
>> # mount ....
>> Civileme
>
>I have had problems with reiserfs on LM-7.2. I was testing my
>X-Configuration and as a consequense my system froze for a number of
>times. I then had to reset my computer, and later I noticed that some
>files could not be found by various programs, but they were visible
>from within mc. I then had a small rescue partition from where I
>managed to repair the corrupted filesytem. I could then access all
>files again.
>
>I asked a question on this mailinglist about Xlibs that could not be
>found when compiling programs (this time LM-8.0). This turns out to be
>the same problem.I was testing my Quakeworld GL RPM, and the computer
>froze up, had to do a hard reset etc,etc. I had not changed anything
>in my systems configuration, did not edit makefiles, did not uninstall
>packages, but when I tried to compile, the Xlibs suddenly could not be
>found by the linker. But ldconfig -v gave me this:
>
>/usr/X11R6/lib:
> libSM.so.6 -> libSM.so.6.0
> libdps.so.1 -> libdps.so.1.0
> libXrender.so.1 -> libXrender.so.1.0
> libX11.so.6 -> libX11.so.6.2
> libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.2.030401
> libXbae.so.4 -> libXbae.so.4.0.8
> libXi.so.6 -> libXi.so.6.0
> libPEX5.so.6 -> libPEX5.so.6.0
> libpsres.so.1 -> libpsres.so.1.0
> libdpstk.so.1 -> libdpstk.so.1.0
> libXaw.so.7 -> libXaw.so.7.0
> libXaw.so.6 -> libXaw.so.6.1
> libXIE.so.6 -> libXIE.so.6.0
> libXfont.so.1 -> libXfont.so.1.3
> libxrx.so.6 -> libxrx.so.6.3
> libXpm.so.4 -> libXpm.so.4.11
> libXaw3d.so.7 -> libXaw3d.so.7.0
> libforms.so.0.88 -> libforms.so.0.88
> libglut.so.3 -> libglut.so.3.7.0
> libXext.so.6 -> libXext.so.6.4
> libXft.so.1 -> libXft.so.1.0
> libICE.so.6 -> libICE.so.6.3
> libXtst.so.6 -> libXtst.so.6.1
> libXt.so.6 -> libXt.so.6.0
> libOSMesa.so.3 -> libOSMesa.so.3.3
> libfont.so.1 -> libfont.so.1.3
> libXp.so.6 -> libXp.so.6.2
> libGL.so.1 -> libGLwrapper.so.0.1.4
> libXlt.so.0 -> libXlt.so.0.8.0
> libXmu.so.6 -> libXmu.so.6.2
>
>This time I had no rescue partition because LM-8.0 wouldn't install on
>a 150 MB partition :-(. So I was asking for a reiserfs-rescue flop via
>this mailing list. The MDK-Install CD worked. I did a
>
>'reiserfsck --check /dev/hda5' which reported:
>
>free block count 67300 mismatches with a correct one 69489.
>on-disk bitmap does not match to the correct one. 589 bytes differ
>
>Then I did:
>'reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hda5'
>'reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda5'
>
>It froze on the 2nd pass from --rebuild-tree at about 60%.
>After that I had no root partition anymore. I never encountered these
>problems when using ext2fs (been using Linux for 2 and a half years now).
>
>So, I think that people who have to shutdown, reboot and reset a lot
>(desktop users) should refrain from using reiserfs and just stick to
>ext2fs. I don't know about XFS though, I never used it.
>
>--
>Best regards, M@X.
>
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