Re: [reiserfs-list] 2.4.19-pre7 / corruption on unwanted reboot

2002-05-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Dirk Mueller wrote: >Hi, > >I've seen HEAVY file corruption on unwanted reboots (like pressing the reset >button accidently) on reiserfs with this kernel on 3 machines now. > >The symptom is that it finds a LOT of files to "unlink" on journal replay, >which I find suspicious as those machines

Re: [reiserfs-list] Performance question

2002-05-06 Thread Hans Reiser
glob is implemented by the shell not the filesystem. This is not for good reason, it just is. We could write something for you to do it in the filesystem and it would be faster. Is your need for speed critical enough to justify writing something special for it? Hans Oleg Drokin wrote: >H

Re: [reiserfs-list] Error Code 255 and "Permission Denied"

2002-05-06 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 12:18:28PM -0400, Daniel Christiansen wrote: > The message in the logfile was"Node (8272) with wrong level (0) found in > the tree (should be 1)." [There was also a message on the screen of > "pass_through_tree: unable to read 2949119 block on device 0x4."] The >

Re: [reiserfs-list] 2.4.19-pre7 / corruption on unwanted reboot

2002-05-06 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Sam, 04 Mai 2002, Chris Mason wrote: > Hmmm, not good at all. Are these 3 systems IDE or scsi? Do they run > additional patches on top of pre7? What kernels < pre7 have you tried > that didn't show this problem? All IDE. The kernel that didn't show this problem was 2.4.16 (plain). No addi

Re: [reiserfs-list] fsync() Performance Issue

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Mason
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 10:59, Hans Reiser wrote: > > So how about if you revise fsync so that it always sends data blocks to > the journal not to the main disk? This gets a little sticky. Once you log a block, it might be replayed after a crash. So, you have to protect against corner cases like

Re: [reiserfs-list] Performance question

2002-05-06 Thread Philipp G?hring
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Thank you Oleg for your answers. > *glob functions are implemented by various library functions, that do full > readdir scans at least once, I believe. I thought I heard about a syscall, that makes it possible to pass the glob to the filesy

Re: [reiserfs-list] 33 bad sectors kills 20GB

2002-05-06 Thread Kuba Ober
On sobota 04 maj 2002 10:58 am, Dax Kelson wrote: > This is a 20GB filesystem, used dd_rescue to make an image of the drive: > > Summary for /dev/hda3 -> hda3.img: > dd_rescue: (info): > ipos: 19711944.0k > opos: 19711944.0k > xferd: 19711944.0k > errs: 33 > errxfer:16.5k > succxfer

Re: [reiserfs-list] 2.4.19-pre7 / corruption on unwanted reboot

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 08:36, Dirk Mueller wrote: > On Sam, 04 Mai 2002, Chris Mason wrote: [ reiserfs corruption after a crash, 2.4.19pre7 ] > > > Hmmm, not good at all. Are these 3 systems IDE or scsi? Do they run > > additional patches on top of pre7? What kernels < pre7 have you tried > >

RE: [reiserfs-list] fsync() Performance Issue

2002-05-06 Thread berthiaume_wayne
I'll add the write caching into the test just for info. Until there is a way to guaranty the data is safe I'll have to go with no write caching though. I should have all this testing done by the end of the week. -Original Message- From: Chris Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [reiserfs-list] Performance question

2002-05-06 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 06:43:45PM +0200, Philipp G?hring wrote: > > *glob functions are implemented by various library functions, that do full > > readdir scans at least once, I believe. > I thought I heard about a syscall, that makes it possible to pass the glob to > the filesystem, so

Re: [reiserfs-list] fsync() Performance Issue

2002-05-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Mason wrote: >On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 10:59, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>So how about if you revise fsync so that it always sends data blocks to >>the journal not to the main disk? >> >> > >This gets a little sticky. > >Once you log a block, it might be replayed after a crash. So, you ha

Re: [reiserfs-list] 2.4.19-pre7 / corruption on unwanted reboot

2002-05-06 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Mon, 06 Mai 2002, Chris Mason wrote: > Please tell us everything about your IDE config. Jens and I are already > trying to track down some odd reiserfs + ide problems on 2.4.19pre7, but > so far that was only with our barrier write patches applied. There is not much common. two of them are V

Re: [reiserfs-list] 2.4.19-pre7 / corruption on unwanted reboot

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 09:59, Dirk Mueller wrote: > On Mon, 06 Mai 2002, Chris Mason wrote: > > > Please tell us everything about your IDE config. Jens and I are already > > trying to track down some odd reiserfs + ide problems on 2.4.19pre7, but > > so far that was only with our barrier write pa

Re: [reiserfs-list] Error Code 255 and "Permission Denied"

2002-05-06 Thread Daniel Christiansen
>>> Oleg Drokin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/06/02 07:21 AM >>> Make sure to get latest reiserfsprogs (v3.x.1b) from namesys ftp site. I did this and installed it. But, of course, my rescue disk has the old 3.x.0j version not the new 3.x.1b version. How can I use the new version? > Other indication

Re: [reiserfs-list] Error Code 255 and "Permission Denied"

2002-05-06 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:07:26PM -0400, Daniel Christiansen wrote: > Make sure to get latest reiserfsprogs (v3.x.1b) from namesys ftp site. > I did this and installed it. But, of course, my rescue disk has the old > 3.x.0j version not the new 3.x.1b version. How can I use the new > ve

Re: [reiserfs-list] 2.4.19-pre7 / corruption on unwanted reboot

2002-05-06 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Mon, 06 Mai 2002, Chris Mason wrote: > Any suggestions on how I might reproduce locally? not much. maybe try a lot of open, unlinked files when pressing reset and then check the md5sum's of all files.. Dirk

Re: [reiserfs-list] Error Code 255 and "Permission Denied"

2002-05-06 Thread Daniel Christiansen
Everything seems to work by using the 3.x.1b version of reisfsck with --rebuild-tree. Thank you very much, Oleg, for taking the time to solve my problem. I don't know anything about the "write cache enabled" issue below. Is this something I have to change with a jumper, a bios setting, or a sof

Re: [reiserfs-list] fsync() Performance Issue

2002-05-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Mason wrote: >On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 10:59, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>So how about if you revise fsync so that it always sends data blocks to >>the journal not to the main disk? >> >> > >This gets a little sticky. > >Once you log a block, it might be replayed after a crash. So, you ha

Re: [reiserfs-list] fsync() Performance Issue

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 17:21, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >I'd rather not put it back in because it adds yet another corner case to > >maintain for all time. Most of the fsync/O_SYNC bound applications are > >just given their own partition anyway, so most users that need data > >logging need it for eve

Re: [reiserfs-list] fsync() Performance Issue

2002-05-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Mason wrote: >On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 17:21, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>>I'd rather not put it back in because it adds yet another corner case to >>>maintain for all time. Most of the fsync/O_SYNC bound applications are >>>just given their own partition anyway, so most users that need data >

Re: [reiserfs-list] Error Code 255 and "Permission Denied"

2002-05-06 Thread Manuel Krause
On 05/06/2002 09:12 PM, Daniel Christiansen wrote: > Everything seems to work by using the 3.x.1b version of reisfsck with > --rebuild-tree. Thank you very much, Oleg, for taking the time to solve > my problem. > > I don't know anything about the "write cache enabled" issue below. Is > this so

[reiserfs-list] BTW: 2.4.19-patches-to-come?

2002-05-06 Thread Manuel Krause
Hi! BTW, for 2.4.19-final it would be very nice to have... 1.) the deleted/truncated/completed-files-on-mount at least printed in the kernel logs, at best with the real filename -- as afterwards they are not retrievable -- That's a security reason -- whoever can trigger a crash

Re: [reiserfs-list] fsync() Performance Issue

2002-05-06 Thread Manuel Krause
On 05/07/2002 12:57 AM, Chris Mason wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 17:21, Hans Reiser wrote: > >>>I'd rather not put it back in because it adds yet another corner case to >>>maintain for all time. Most of the fsync/O_SYNC bound applications are >>>just given their own partition anyway, so most

Re: [reiserfs-list] Error Code 255 and "Permission Denied"

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 20:54, Manuel Krause wrote: > On 05/06/2002 09:12 PM, Daniel Christiansen wrote: > > > Everything seems to work by using the 3.x.1b version of reisfsck with > > --rebuild-tree. Thank you very much, Oleg, for taking the time to solve > > my problem. > > > > I don't know any

Re: [reiserfs-list] fsync() Performance Issue

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Mason
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 21:17, Manuel Krause wrote: > On 05/07/2002 12:57 AM, Chris Mason wrote: > > > Hi, Chris & Hans! > > Don't think this somekind of destructive discussion would lead to > anything useful for now, can you post a diff for > 2.4.19-pre7+latest-related-pending +compound-patch-f