feiserfs brings my whole system down WAS: Re: [SLE] reiser fs buggy?
Hi Carlos and all,
Yup, reiserfsck reported a coupple errors, and on a few partitions that I
thought were good. I apparently repaired them with the --rebuild-tree
option.
It's pretty horrible that when the reiserfs beacome corrupt, the whole
system goes down. Is this going to be addressed in future reiserfs
versions??
Thanks,
- Ryan
* Carlos E. R.
On 2004-04-22 22:09, ryan@the-summit.net wrote:
I had some serious system lockup problems with SuSe 8.1 and reiserfs, but they were addressed with the "barrier=none" fix in the fstab.
The origin of that problem was also solved with a kernel update.
Now in SuSE 9.0, I am having similear system freeze issues with accessing some files on reiserfs. 9.0 doesn't like the barrier=none at all, and I haven't seen any postings on this issue.
That barrier problem disapeared.
Check you don't have badblocks on your HD (check kernel log) or other problems (run a reiserfsck while booted from the rescue CD).
A HD read/write error will probably freeze your system when trying to access afected files. If the file is not crucial, system will survive - for the time being.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
It's pretty horrible that when the reiserfs beacome corrupt, the whole system goes down. Is this going to be addressed in future reiserfs versions??
I don't mean to split hairs, but any filesystem corruption could bring the system down. Desn't matter if its ext3 or NTFS or what. Yes, some are more resistant to physical hardware damage, but when your filesystem gets corrupted bad things happen. If you damage some filesystem metadata then the system is going to have problems no matter what. Having said that reiserfs is definitely being worked on and always being improved. It doesn't have the years behind it ext2/3 does but its definitely stable. If you have a read or a write error as Carlos suggested then its possible its a bad block that is causing the problems. Similar things would happen with other filesystems.
The Friday 2004-04-23 at 09:06 -0700, ryan@the-summit.net wrote:
Hi Carlos and all,
Er... first, two procedural things :-) 1) When you answer to something, do it as a reply, not as a new email. Your answers does not register as an answer to the thread (it doesn't have the in-reply-to header). 2) Do not CC to the person, just answer to the list, unless necesary: it just adds duplicate emails.
Yup, reiserfsck reported a coupple errors, and on a few partitions that I thought were good. I apparently repaired them with the --rebuild-tree option.
It makes sense.
It's pretty horrible that when the reiserfs beacome corrupt, the whole system goes down.
No, it is absolutely normal. The pity was that it was not automatically detected.
Is this going to be addressed in future reiserfs versions??
It is not a problem with reiserfs... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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