We recently rewrote our installer to use a custom program that can
stream a compressed iso9660 image file and unpack it to disk.
Previously it used rsync. Everything seemed to be fine, but when we
started running it on many machines, we started encountering errors like
the ones shown below, t
Clifford Beshers wrote:
We recently rewrote our installer to use a custom program that can
stream a compressed iso9660 image file and unpack it to disk.
Previously it used rsync. Everything seemed to be fine, but when we
started running it on many machines, we started encountering errors
like
Hans Reiser wrote:
It is remotely possible that the above could be a failure to reboot
after using fsync
Err, fdisk not fsync
Well, I have some new info this morning.
We attributed the errors to hard drive problems to start with as well,
but the errors were too consistent and appeared on too many machines
simultaneously.
Over the weekend we have collected many reports of people being unable
to install using reiser3, b
progsreiserfs was the culprit. Rebuilding with reiserfsprogs has
restored sanity.
Clifford Beshers wrote:
Well, I have some new info this morning.
We attributed the errors to hard drive problems to start with as well,
but the errors were too consistent and appeared on too many machines
simulta
Clifford Beshers wrote:
progsreiserfs was the culprit. Rebuilding with reiserfsprogs has
restored sanity.
Clifford Beshers wrote:
Cool.
