Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:14:57 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: ReiserFS phenomenon with 2.4.2 ac24/ac12 |
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> Just to make sure I understand, you had the exact same errors before > running fsck? Same files could not be deleted? Correct.
> > I think this is a problem with the reiserfs code in the kernel. I never > > ran reiserfsck before this problem surfaced. The problem arose in the > > netscape cache directory with lots of small files. Guess the tail handling > > is not that stable yet? > > I wish I could blame it on the tail code ;-) None of the bugs fixed there > would have caused this, and they should be completely unrelated. I'll try > some tests in oom situations to try and reproduce. It could also be caused > by hashing errors. If you formatted with r5 hash, was the partition ever > incorrectly detected as tea hash?
No idea. I never got that deep into reiser.
> > How do I get rid of the /a/yy directory now? > > With fsck. I'll grab the latest today and make sure it can fix this bug. > Until then, mv /a/yy /a/yy.broken and mkdir /a/yy.
/a/yy is already a "broken" dir moved out of the way.
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