On Monday 21 April 2003 14:13, James Mohr wrote:
On Sunday 20 April 2003 15:59, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Since this is in your root file system, did you run reiserfsck from your emergency system. FSCK should never be run from a mounted file system. I agree with Anders. A while back I had similar problems on my laptop due to a memory problem which also prevented me from using the DVD.
Certainly a reformat and upgrade will fix this problem, but this could be indicative of some other problem. I've found ReiserFS to be pretty stable on my systems.
I remounted the root FS read-only just to see what it would report. Granted it could be a physical problem on the hard disk that the reformat would not correct. However, at this point the immediate problem not being able to work. which was corrected by renaming the directory.
I have been using the ReiserFS only since 8.1, so I really cannot comment personally on the stability. I just found a number of places through google that indicated problems.
Regards,
jimmo
I doubt that this is a Reiserfs problem. I'm using it on several PCs, with several hdds, and I also head one where a memory defect (random errors slowly repeating and increasing, very nasty) caused errors in the file system. fsck.reiserfs with the rebuild-tree option could get it up again enough to save all data which was not affected by the defect memory. The rebuid-tree option might not be totally stable, so a backup is recommended, but I did not have the time for it and took the risk, and it always worked fine for me. The errors I had had been the memory defect and a hdd which physically died, and never by reiserfs. It will be a quick check, after you made a backup or not, to boot the emergency system from your CD / DVD and then run the fsck.reiserfs on the partition - unmounted. It will tell you if it needs the rebuild tree option then. HTH, Matt T.