Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 May 2006 19:52:15 +0200 | From | Andreas Steinmetz <> | Subject | Re: Reiserfsck dies |
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Markus Müller wrote: > Hi Andreas Steinmetz, > >>Markus Müller wrote: >> >> >>>no, the hdd is a software raid 5, /dev/md0, which is piped through aes >>>via cryptsetup, so it is accessed via /dev/mapper/hdb >>> >>> >>My experience with such a stacking and reiserfs was horrible. Continous >>filesystem corruption that finally required reformatting. I then >>replaced reiserfs with ext3 and the stacking works since then. >> >>It is not a dm-crypt problem as the symptoms also occurred with >>raid5/lvm2/reiserfs, so any raidx/dm/reiserfs stacking seems to be only >>something for the more adventurous folks. Thus I don't know if the >>problem still exists with current kernels. >> >> > Ok, maybe. I try now to insert 512 MB more RAM into the machine, more > than 1 Gig I don't have for this system. I only want the raid to work > just one time, cause there is data I want to (but not in any case) be > secured. Then I again install ext3 on it... this worked on this raid > without any problems at all. And the fsck is about 2 houres, not 28 > hours (--rebuild-tree). > > I don't think my kernel is to old, do you?
So it seems the problem still exists (lucky me had lots of backup tapes plus firewire disk backups). I only remember that finally the fs was to foobar for reiserfsck to recover in my case. -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use robotrap@domdv.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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