Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-06-06 Thread Ingo Bormuth
On 2007-06-06 11:10, Xu CanHao wrote: So maybe I'd suggest anybody take the _official_ reiser4 patch-set and _vanilla_ kernel source, these things should provide the maximum stability. My root filesystem with reiser4 never loses data. I fully agree, as long as there _exists_ a current official

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-06-05 Thread Ingo Bormuth
On 2007-06-04 13:41, Edward Shishkin wrote: When performing mapping read (needed for execution, etc) reiser4 converts small files from tails to extents and back (your /bin/sleep is less then 4 * blocksize, right?) Yes, it's 15k. The conversion is done on disk, even when mounted read only?

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-06-05 Thread Xu CanHao
So maybe I'd suggest anybody take the _official_ reiser4 patch-set and _vanilla_ kernel source, these things should provide the maximum stability. My root filesystem with reiser4 never loses data.

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-06-04 Thread Edward Shishkin
Ingo Bormuth wrote: On 2007-06-03 03:10, Edward Shishkin wrote: Ingo Bormuth wrote: Hm, same here. I lost /bin/sleep several times. Would you please describe the problem in more details? What kernel version? What does I lost /bin/sleep mean? Does it mean that: 1.

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-06-03 Thread Ingo Bormuth
On 2007-06-03 03:10, Edward Shishkin wrote: Ingo Bormuth wrote: Hm, same here. I lost /bin/sleep several times. Would you please describe the problem in more details? What kernel version? What does I lost /bin/sleep mean? Does it mean that: 1. /bin/sleep was truncated to 0 bytes, i.e. ls -l

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-06-02 Thread Ingo Bormuth
On 2007-05-30 15:03, David Masover wrote: Only, recently, these fsck-a-thons started happening more and more often, and I started to lose random files. They'd just be silently truncated to 0 bytes. And not files I was writing a lot -- I'm talking about things like /bin/mount. Hm, same

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-06-02 Thread Edward Shishkin
Ingo Bormuth wrote: On 2007-05-30 15:03, David Masover wrote: Only, recently, these fsck-a-thons started happening more and more often, and I started to lose random files. They'd just be silently truncated to 0 bytes. And not files I was writing a lot -- I'm talking about things like

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread David Masover
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 07:36:13 Toby Thain wrote: but you can't mention using reiserfs in mixed company without someone accusing you of throwing your data away. People who repeat this rarely have any direct experience of Reiser; they repeat what they've heard; like all myths and

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Wednesday 30 May 2007 17:25, David Masover wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2007 07:36:13 Toby Thain wrote: but you can't mention using reiserfs in mixed company without someone accusing you of throwing your data away. People who repeat this rarely have any direct experience

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Tuesday 29 May 2007 16:36, Toby Thain wrote: I have always found reiser3 to be rock solid My experienced too, over many server years. but you can't mention using reiserfs in mixed company without someone accusing you of throwing your data away. People who repeat this

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread Toby Thain
On 30-May-07, at 10:25 AM, David Masover wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2007 07:36:13 Toby Thain wrote: but you can't mention using reiserfs in mixed company without someone accusing you of throwing your data away. People who repeat this rarely have any direct experience of Reiser; they repeat

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread devsk
-list@namesys.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:42:01 AM Subject: Re: Filesystem corruption On 30-May-07, at 10:25 AM, David Masover wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2007 07:36:13 Toby Thain wrote: but you can't mention using reiserfs in mixed company without someone accusing you of throwing your

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread Toby Thain
On 30-May-07, at 2:22 PM, devsk wrote: I think people just like to spread FUD without doing any analysis of what really caused the FS corruption. I fear you're right. OTOH, filesystem developers on this list (and others including ZFS list) tend to be extremely meticulous. --Toby

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread David Masover
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 11:42:01 Toby Thain wrote: But does it cause data loss? One usually sees claims that reiserfs ate my data, or I heard reiserfs ate somebody's data, but without supplying a root cause - bad memory? powerfail? bad disk? etc. Power failure shouldn't kill a filesystem,

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread David Masover
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 12:22:17 devsk wrote: I have used R4 for a year now and I have had to reset my PC, troubleshooting problems with vmware/mythtv/cisco vpn client/nvidia, so many times that its not even funny! And R4 didn't give me any problems even once. It boots right up, without any

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread David Masover
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 11:02:26 Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Ordinarily I like to help debug things, but not at the risk of my data. Maybe I'll try again later, and see if I can reproduce it in a VM or somewhere safe... that would be great, thanks Keep in mind, it's unlikely, given I

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread devsk
PROTECTED] Cc: Toby Thain [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ReiserFS List reiserfs-list@namesys.com Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:03:14 PM Subject: Re: Filesystem corruption On Wednesday 30 May 2007 12:22:17 devsk wrote: I have used R4 for a year now and I have had to reset my PC, troubleshooting problems

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-29 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Tuesday 29 May 2007 08:18, Tracy R Reed wrote: Laurent CARON wrote: Seems to me it is a filesystem corruption. Did I miss it or did not a single person ask you if this happened with reiserfs 3 or 4? Laurent mentioned rebuild-tree mode of reiserfsck. So the problem happened

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-29 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Monday 28 May 2007 22:16, Laurent CARON wrote: Christian Kujau a écrit : Please try to check the fs with a current version of reiserfsprogs first. As the manpage advises, try --check first and use --rebuild-tree only if you know what you're doing, IOW: have a current backup.

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-29 Thread Toby Thain
I have always found reiser3 to be rock solid My experienced too, over many server years. but you can't mention using reiserfs in mixed company without someone accusing you of throwing your data away. People who repeat this rarely have any direct experience of Reiser; they repeat what

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-28 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
?- ? ? ??? new drwx-- 2 lcaron mail48 2007-05-24 19:16 tmp/ The entry that scares me is ?- ? ? ??? new Seems to me it is a filesystem corruption. Any other solution than rebuild-tree ? Did you try rm -rf new? Thanks Laurent

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-28 Thread Laurent CARON
Vladimir V. Saveliev a écrit : Did you try rm -rf new? $ rm -rf new rm: cannot lstat `new': Permission denied

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-28 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Monday 28 May 2007 18:10, Laurent CARON wrote: Vladimir V. Saveliev a écrit : Did you try rm -rf new? $ rm -rf new rm: cannot lstat `new': Permission denied Is there anything from reiserfs in system logs?

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-28 Thread Laurent CARON
Vladimir V. Saveliev a écrit : Is there anything from reiserfs in system logs? Nothing from reiserfs/kernel in I did experience a similar bug on another computer a while ago (this bug was fixed by rebuilding the tree).

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-28 Thread Christian Kujau
[resending, because lncsa.com bounced my mail] On Mon, 28 May 2007, Christian Kujau wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2007, Laurent CARON wrote: The entry that scares me is ?- ? ? ??? new Seems to me it is a filesystem corruption. Any other solution than rebuild

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-28 Thread Laurent CARON
Christian Kujau a écrit : Please try to check the fs with a current version of reiserfsprogs first. As the manpage advises, try --check first and use --rebuild-tree only if you know what you're doing, IOW: have a current backup. Over the past few years, i experienced a few reiser corruption

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-28 Thread Christian Kujau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 May 2007, Laurent CARON wrote: Always ran check which told me to run fix-fixable or rebuild-tree, which I did after ensuring of backup reliability, and the error was corrected (after eventually losing a few files i fortunately had in the

Filesystem corruption

2007-05-27 Thread Laurent CARON
that scares me is ?- ? ? ??? new Seems to me it is a filesystem corruption. Any other solution than rebuild-tree ? Thanks Laurent

Re: Filesystem corruption

2003-08-14 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:05:28AM +0800, Locke wrote: the files. I'm guessing the reason why it recovered so little was because that because I was running a 7.8GB+40GB LVM and the 40GB pyhsical volume wasn't working and left it with only 7.8GB. Yes of course. is_tree_node: node

Re: filesystem corruption ?

2003-03-22 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello, Though this machine will be replaced by a real server in a few month, I'm still rather worried what happend. Even if its 'only' a hardware memory problem this means lots of trouble for us -- on the one hand it seems not to be memtest86 detectable and on the other hand our programs

Re: filesystem corruption ?

2003-03-21 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Friday 21 March 2003 08:32, you wrote: Hello! On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:23:48PM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote: Hm, interesting. And what are the differences? How big are they? Since it are binaries files, a colleague had the idea to use hexdump and diff, so the command for the

Re: filesystem corruption ?

2003-03-21 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hi, So, the beam of X-rays run through the memory module corrupting some bits? ;) This stuff should not have been written to disk, so probably plain reboot should fix everything? Can you test that? indeed after rebooting everything is fine again. We will run another memtest86 during the

Re: filesystem corruption ?

2003-03-21 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:01:38PM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote: So, the beam of X-rays run through the memory module corrupting some bits? ;) This stuff should not have been written to disk, so probably plain reboot should fix everything? Can you test that? indeed after rebooting

Re: filesystem corruption ?

2003-03-21 Thread Bernd Schubert
I've learn in the school that if you put some bit amount of plumbum in between some area and source of radiation, chances are radiation that will reach the protected area will be of much lesser strenght. In fact you might go to those guys and ask them what matherial (and how much of it) is

Re: filesystem corruption ?

2003-03-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:07, Oleg Drokin wrote: I've learn in the school that if you put some bit amount of plumbum in It's better known in English as lead. The problem with lead is that it's poisonous and soft. Having to wash your hands after touching your computer could get annoying. Other

Re: [reiserfs-list] Filesystem corruption after resize

2002-06-12 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Quoting Vitaly Fertman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Hello, The exact commands used are: resize_reiserfs -s 400G /dev/vg01/stuff lvreduce -l 16693 /dev/vg01/stuff pvmove -v /dev/md1 vgreduce -v vg01 /dev/md1 resize_reiserfs /dev/vg01/stuff reiserfsck --check /dev/vg01/stuff

Re: [reiserfs-list] Filesystem Corruption

2002-06-11 Thread Kurt
Thanks Oleg, sorry for the late response (i was out of the office) , you may find the following information on the last crash useful :- +++ 3 04:32:37 devo kernel: vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: dead inode read from disk [854 1695654 0x0 SD]. This is likely to be

[reiserfs-list] Filesystem corruption after resize

2002-06-11 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Hello, First something about my setup: md0: 8x80 GB in a RAID5 configuration md1: 4x160 GB in a RAID5 configuration /dev/vg01/stuff: the union of md0 and md1 done with lvm. dark:/mnt# reiserfsck -V -reiserfsck, 2002- reiserfsprogs 3.x.1a dark:/mnt# resize_reiserfs -v

Re: [reiserfs-list] Filesystem Corruption

2002-06-07 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:00:01PM -0400, Kurt wrote: error stating the file pointed to nowhere. I was unable to complete a reiserfsck --fix-fixable because of the length of time that this (fsck) process took since this was an unscheduled downtime. During the weekend i will attempt

[reiserfs-list] Filesystem Corruption

2002-06-06 Thread Kurt
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[reiserfs-list] Filesystem Corruption

2002-06-06 Thread Kurt
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