Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.
On Friday 14 August 2009 14:47:26 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 14:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and > > > backups though one large partition makes for easier management. And > > > there is the fact that some maintenance patches to reiserfs mean I cant > > > use kernels 2.6.29-30 (oops's) - though a trial of a vanilla .31-rc > > > worked fine so I am waiting until thats out. > > > > Hmm, do I need to be worried? > > > > I use reiser almost everywhere and keep the kernel current, so I'm on .30 > > > > I haven't heard of such a bug as you describe though, just one that > > affects IDE chipsets on 32 bit 2.6.30 > > Probably not as its rare and I dont know why I (seemingly only me in > fact) have tripped over it: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274883 Cool, thanks -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 14:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: > > That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups > > though one large partition makes for easier management. And there is > > the fact that some maintenance patches to reiserfs mean I cant use > > kernels 2.6.29-30 (oops's) - though a trial of a vanilla .31-rc worked > > fine so I am waiting until thats out. > > Hmm, do I need to be worried? > > I use reiser almost everywhere and keep the kernel current, so I'm on .30 > > I haven't heard of such a bug as you describe though, just one that affects > IDE chipsets on 32 bit 2.6.30 Probably not as its rare and I dont know why I (seemingly only me in fact) have tripped over it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274883 BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!
Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.
On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: > That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups > though one large partition makes for easier management. And there is > the fact that some maintenance patches to reiserfs mean I cant use > kernels 2.6.29-30 (oops's) - though a trial of a vanilla .31-rc worked > fine so I am waiting until thats out. Hmm, do I need to be worried? I use reiser almost everywhere and keep the kernel current, so I'm on .30 I haven't heard of such a bug as you describe though, just one that affects IDE chipsets on 32 bit 2.6.30 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:10 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:53 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > Nothing critical stored there - mythtv recordings, > > Don't the MythTV folks advise against using ReiserFS for recordings? They > recommend XFS. > They do - as I discovered when researching this problem. Though they also say the problem may have been fixed as it was awhile ago - and this system has been fine except for occasional minor problems from power failures (such as burning power supplies :) since 2004-5 when it was first built. That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups though one large partition makes for easier management. And there is the fact that some maintenance patches to reiserfs mean I cant use kernels 2.6.29-30 (oops's) - though a trial of a vanilla .31-rc worked fine so I am waiting until thats out. Anyhow, I am rambling - thanks for the pointers. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:53 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Nothing critical stored there - mythtv recordings, Don't the MythTV folks advise against using ReiserFS for recordings? They recommend XFS. -- Neil Bothwick Several errant electrons jumped when they shouldn't have at a place they shouldn't have, resulting in what shouldn't have. In short, a short. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 13:36:31 William Kenworthy wrote: > > I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB > > - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a > > final reiserfsck it hangs - always on a different file but in a simlar > > directory. The kernel doesnt have large file support, but I thinks > > thats for over 2TB so whats the problem? > > > > Using reiserfsprogs 3.6.19-r2 with 2.6.28 gentoo-sources. > > > ls -al /the/faulty/directory > > if you see lots of ???'s, the file system is toast and I hope you have > backups. > Nothing obvious with a with a quick look - I am running another check and will look closer where it stops. Nothing critical stored there - mythtv recordings, duplicate backups (dirvish) of other systems and the like. I have separate backups of some myth config files so I can lose it. Probably will have to eventually but Ive tried ext2 and ext3 but they cant take the thrashing dirvish gives a file system (or anything else it seems - dont know why they have a good reputation because my usage doesnt show it ...) BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.
On Friday 14 August 2009 13:36:31 William Kenworthy wrote: > I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB > - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a > final reiserfsck it hangs - always on a different file but in a simlar > directory. The kernel doesnt have large file support, but I thinks > thats for over 2TB so whats the problem? > > Using reiserfsprogs 3.6.19-r2 with 2.6.28 gentoo-sources. ls -al /the/faulty/directory if you see lots of ???'s, the file system is toast and I hope you have backups. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
