Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:22:36 -0700 | From | david <> | Subject | Re: kernel panic with 2.4.x and reiserfs |
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To your complaint, I have to add my kudos. I frequently run into crashes and I have only had reiserfs filesystem that I had to rebuild in well over a year of using it on half a dozen workstations. I use 2.4 exclusively and have often had "premature restarts".
David
Tony Hoyle wrote:
> jason wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> As the subject would imply, I've been having problems with 2.4.x. I have >> my root partition (/dev/hda1) as reiserfs and also have another >> harddrive >> with a reiserfs partition (/dev/hdc1). Several programs write (e.g. save >> files to) /dev/hdc1, and I also store files there. Under 2.4.2, whenever >> manually copying files from hda1 to hdc1, I would get a kernel panic, >> the > > > > Reiserfs doesn't cope well with crashes.... Under 2.4 I wouldn't > recommend using it on any kind of critical server - it seems to > progressively corrupt itself (I'm looking at the second reformat and > reinstall in a week, and I'm not a happy bunny). > > As the warning on reiserfsck says, the rebuild-tree option is a last > resort. It's as likely to make the problem worse then improve it (It > rounds all the file lengths up to a block size, padding with zeros, > which breaks lots of stuff). Backup what you can first. > > I find that if you run reiserfsck -x /dev/hda1 a couple of dozen times > it slowly fixes stuff that it couldn't fix on the previous pass.One > thing that can't fix is the bug that seems to make random files on the > FS unreadable even for root.The only way I've found around that one is > a periodic format/reinstall. > > Tony >
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