Re: ReiserFS to Reiser4 Migration

2005-02-21 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 01:15, Can Sar wrote: > Hi, > > I've desperately been looking for a tool to migrate from ReiserFS to > Reiser4 with no luck, I searched on the web for several hours but only > found instructions to back up to another device and then mkfs on the > old ReiserFS partit

Re: Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS

2005-02-21 Thread Alex Adriaanse
I found out some interesting things tonight. I removed my /var and /home snapshots, and all the corruption, with the exception of files I had changed while /var and /home were in their corrupted state, had disappeared! I overwrote several files on /var that were corrupt with clean copies from my

Re: where are reiser4 sources

2005-02-21 Thread David Masover
Mark Junker wrote: Hi, where are the Reiser4 sources? I just want to use Reiser4 in a separate application and don't like the idea of extracting the sources from the linux 2.6 patch. Out of curiosity, why? $ cd linux-2.6 $ patch [...] $ cp -a fs/reiser4 .. $ cd .. $ rm -rf linux-2.6 Or, I think t

ReiserFS to Reiser4 Migration

2005-02-21 Thread Can Sar
Hi, I've desperately been looking for a tool to migrate from ReiserFS to Reiser4 with no luck, I searched on the web for several hours but only found instructions to back up to another device and then mkfs on the old ReiserFS partition. Are these sources really right or is there such a tool som

Re: Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS

2005-02-21 Thread Alex Adriaanse
Alasdair, Thanks for the tips. Do you think it's possible DM's snapshots could've caused this corruption, or do you think the problem lies elsewhere? Alex On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:18:52 +, Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:25:37PM -0600, Alex Adriaanse

Re: when is it decided that extent pointer is to be created in reiser4

2005-02-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Pallavi Dalya wrote: hello, as far as i know tree based file systems use extents for managing free space. does reiser4 use a bitmap based method or extents to keep track of used and free blocks. bitmap. another issue is that when i tried storing a small file an extent pointer was create

Re: new reiser4progs?

2005-02-21 Thread Hans Reiser
What is the time since the last update was released, and are there bugs whose fixes are possessed only by Vitaly at this time? Hans Christian wrote: Vitaly Fertman wrote: >testing a release candidate before releasing. >the amount of time needed depends on the amount of problems >appeared, if debu

Re: Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS

2005-02-21 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Alex Adriaanse wrote: The weird thing is I did not see any I/O errors in my logs, and running find on /var worked without a problem. By the way, did you take any DM snapshots when you experienced that corruption? No, no snapshots. Just working find on a large dataset (source tree, about 16GB). Th

Re: where are reiser4 sources

2005-02-21 Thread Mark Junker
Sander Sweers schrieb: I have been using the tarball from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/. Have not had any problems with this but I do not know how up to date it is. I already found this but I just wanted to download the version *not* consisting of just the linux kernel patches. Jus

when is it decided that extent pointer is to be created in reiser4

2005-02-21 Thread Pallavi Dalya
hello, as far as i know tree based file systems use extents for managing free space. does reiser4 use a bitmap based method or extents to keep track of used and free blocks. another issue is that when i tried storing a small file an extent pointer was created for the file which was also

Re: where are reiser4 sources

2005-02-21 Thread Sander Sweers
I have been using the tarball from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/. Have not had any problems with this but I do not know how up to date it is. Sander On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:16:47 +0100, Mark Junker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > where are the Reiser4 sources? I just want to use

Re: reiser4progs 1.0.4

2005-02-21 Thread Ookhoi
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:59:53PM +0300, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > On Monday 21 February 2005 16:10, Ookhoi wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:44:41PM +0300, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > > > The new reiser4progs package is available on our ftp > > > site (ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/). > >

Re: reiser4progs 1.0.4

2005-02-21 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Monday 21 February 2005 17:35, Jindrich Makovicka wrote: > Ookhoi wrote: > > Fatal: Failed to open the reiser4 backup. > > Fatal: Cannot open the FileSystem on (/dev/hda1). > > > > 1 fatal corruptions were detected in SuperBlock. Run with --build-sb > > option to fix them. > > > Anyway, what

Re: Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS

2005-02-21 Thread Alex Adriaanse
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:37:53 +0100, Andreas Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Adriaanse wrote: > > As far as I can tell all the directories are still intact, but there > > was a good number of files that had been corrupted. Those files > > looked like they had some chunks removed, and so

where are reiser4 sources

2005-02-21 Thread Mark Junker
Hi, where are the Reiser4 sources? I just want to use Reiser4 in a separate application and don't like the idea of extracting the sources from the linux 2.6 patch. Regards, Mark

Re: Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS

2005-02-21 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:25:37PM -0600, Alex Adriaanse wrote: > This morning was the first time my backup script took > a snapshot since upgrading to 2.6.10-ac12 (yesterday I had taken a few > snapshots myself for testing purposes, this seemed to work fine). a) Activating a snapshot requires a

Re: reiser4progs 1.0.4

2005-02-21 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
Ookhoi wrote: > Fatal: Failed to open the reiser4 backup. > Fatal: Cannot open the FileSystem on (/dev/hda1). > > 1 fatal corruptions were detected in SuperBlock. Run with --build-sb option to fix them. Anyway, what is the preferred way to convert reiser4 to this new backup layout? I have all re

Re: Reiser4fs and SPARC64?

2005-02-21 Thread Florian Engelmann
Alex Zarochentsev schrieb: hello On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:23:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These 2 patches are no more needed for me and my sparc64 since you released 1.0.4? Today i compiled my 2.6.10-mm3-reiser4 kernel and it works fine. Only have you tried reiser4? no i coul

Re: Reiser4fs and SPARC64?

2005-02-21 Thread Florian Engelmann
Vitaly Fertman schrieb: libaal-1.0.4.tar.gz compiled fine without any patches. but reiser4progs-1.0.4 did not (also no patches!): do you have a mix of several installed versions in the system? uninstall, check that nothing left and another try will probably help. you mean of libaal? no i do

Re: reiser4progs 1.0.4

2005-02-21 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Monday 21 February 2005 16:10, Ookhoi wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:44:41PM +0300, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > > The new reiser4progs package is available on our ftp > > site (ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/). > > Thank you for this release. It doesn't crash anymore :-) > > But it does

Re: Reiser4fs and SPARC64?

2005-02-21 Thread Alex Zarochentsev
hello On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:23:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > These 2 patches are no more needed for me and my sparc64 since you > released 1.0.4? > Today i compiled my 2.6.10-mm3-reiser4 kernel and it works fine. Only have you tried reiser4? > problem left is LVM cause th

Re: Reiser4fs and SPARC64?

2005-02-21 Thread Vitaly Fertman
> libaal-1.0.4.tar.gz compiled fine without any patches. > but reiser4progs-1.0.4 did not (also no patches!): do you have a mix of several installed versions in the system? uninstall, check that nothing left and another try will probably help. > format40.c:255: warning: type defaults to `int' in

Re: new reiser4progs?

2005-02-21 Thread Ookhoi
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:49:12PM +0300, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > On Friday 18 February 2005 17:08, Ookhoi wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 04:19:59PM +0300, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > > > On Friday 18 February 2005 11:31, Ookhoi wrote: > > > > Are new reiser4progs available? I can only find 1.0.3 a

Re: reiser4progs 1.0.4

2005-02-21 Thread Ookhoi
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:44:41PM +0300, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > The new reiser4progs package is available on our ftp > site (ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/). Thank you for this release. It doesn't crash anymore :-) But it does tell me: "NO REISER4 METADATA WERE FOUND. FS RECOVERY IS

Re: Reiser4fs and SPARC64?

2005-02-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vitaly Fertman wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 17:09, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:17:49PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i just wondered about reiser4fs working on SPARC64? I use Gentoo Sparc64 and it is working fine with kernel 2.4.28. But is the Reiser4 c

Re: Reiser4fs and SPARC64?

2005-02-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vitaly Fertman wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 17:09, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:17:49PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i just wondered about reiser4fs working on SPARC64? I use Gentoo Sparc64 and it is working fine with kernel 2.4.28. But is the Reiser4 c

Re: Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS

2005-02-21 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Alex Adriaanse wrote: As far as I can tell all the directories are still intact, but there was a good number of files that had been corrupted. Those files looked like they had some chunks removed, and some had a bunch of NUL characters (in blocks of 4096 characters). Some files even had chunks of

Re: Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS

2005-02-21 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 08:25, Alex Adriaanse wrote: > As of this morning I've experienced some very odd data corruption > problem on my server. Let me post some background information first. > > For the past few years I've been running this server under Linux 2.4.x > and Debian Woody. It h