* John Pettigrew
I have some files that I cannot delete, even as root. I had the same sort of problem a couple of months ago. I was unable to delete some files even as root.
Bingo - I also use reiserfs, so I ran reiserfsck --check followed by --rebuild-tree (which I was told to do by the check). Judging by the number [snip] I'm rather troubled by this. I thought that the point of a journalled FS was that this sort of nastiness didn't happen, and was at least kept infrequent and small-scale? I see fsck as part of the boot process of this box every day (it's a desktop system), so why hasn't this taken care of problems as they arise?
In my personal opinion reiserfs (with a 2.4.X kernel) is not reliable for production systems. reiserfs and 2.4 and nfs are a surefire recipe for disaster. Things may have improve after 2.4.16 (i.e suse 8.0 or higher) but I've seen a few too many weird things with reiserfs. (e.g. make a directory with the word test in the name onna reiser system, try accessing the diretcoyr over NFS, the NFS client claims it's a file if you try to cd into it (or move multiple files into it), but claims its a directory if you try to rm it (and rmduir fails with not a directory). Files within the directry may be accessible, but maybe not. I';ve had reiser bark and create (as you say) undelatable files, and I've had kernel panics with OpenOffice. Installing OpenOPffice (over NFS) on areiser partition would kernel panic the system 2 out of 3 times (same system, same directory as in kernel pani, reboot machine, rm -rf directory, reinstall .. fails 2 times, works the 3rd time. Starting openoffice from that directory is a 50/50 chance of kernel panic &c &c &c ... My advice (based on maintaining an odd 50 orso linux boxes raning from P133 upto dual Xeon boxes and AMD system, with avrious IDE and csi configurations is * do *NOT* use reiserfs for production systems* ext3 worsk fine though .. Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-10.280.1515 Global IT Support manager Direct:+31-10.280.1539 Jason Geosystems BV Fax :+31-10.280.1511 (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.