** Reply to message from Carl Hartung
Hi Ed,
I'm amazed no one's responded yet! Since it's a ReiserFS error message, I think it's a safe bet you should shut down, back up everything important on that partition and undertake diagnostics/repairs of the filesystem on it.
The basic procedure is:
Shut down. Boot into rescue mode using the installation DVD/CD. Mount the partition. Make backups, as needed. Unmount the partition. Run reiserfsck to diagnose/repair the problem(s).
It must not be a reiserfs problem alone. I booted into hda5 and did a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on /dev/hdb6 (original partition with messages). When I booted into hda5, with a new reiserfs format, I got similar messages with dmesg. I booted into hdb6 and did a rebuild-tree on hda5. Both are showing no corruptions and no error messages from reiserfsck. The messages now are slightly different, but the interval is still less than 1 minute between entries. ReiserFS: hda5: warning: vs-2100: add_save_link:search_by_key ([-1 298547 0x1 IND]) returned 1 ReiserFS: hda5: warning: vs-2100: add_save_link:search_by_key ([-1 298547 0x1 IND]) returned 1 ReiserFS: hda5: warning: vs-2100: add_save_link:search_by_key ([-1 298547 0x1 IND]) returned 1 ReiserFS: hda5: warning: vs-2100: add_save_link:search_by_key ([-1 298547 0x1 IND]) returned 1 ReiserFS: hda5: warning: vs-2100: add_save_link:search_by_key ([-1 298547 0x1 IND]) returned 1 ReiserFS: hda5: warning: vs-2100: add_save_link:search_by_key ([-1 298547 0x1 IND]) returned 1 Ed Harrison, Registered Linux User #199533 SuSE 10.0, Kernel 2.6.15 PolarBar Mailer 1.26