2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

[Jesper Juhl]

I just got a warning message with 2.6.18-rc3 that I've never seen before :

  ReiserFS: sda4: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

The message showed up twice in dmesg during two parallel "make -j3"
builds of the 2.6.18-rc3 kernel source in two sepperate directories.
I've tried to reproduce it but without luck.

It would be nice if someone could tell me what the message means and
wether or not I should be worried about it.

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Re: 2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

[Redeeman]

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 15:08 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> I just got a warning message with 2.6.18-rc3 that I've never seen before :
> 
>   ReiserFS: sda4: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item
> 
> The message showed up twice in dmesg during two parallel "make -j3"
> builds of the 2.6.18-rc3 kernel source in two sepperate directories.
> I've tried to reproduce it but without luck.
> 
> It would be nice if someone could tell me what the message means and
> wether or not I should be worried about it.
by default i would suggest worried mode.

what does fsck.reiserfs say?
> 

Re: 2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

[Jesper Juhl]

On Sunday 30 July 2006 15:31, Redeeman wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 15:08 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > I just got a warning message with 2.6.18-rc3 that I've never seen before :
> > 
> >   ReiserFS: sda4: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item
> > 
> > The message showed up twice in dmesg during two parallel "make -j3"
> > builds of the 2.6.18-rc3 kernel source in two sepperate directories.
> > I've tried to reproduce it but without luck.
> > 
> > It would be nice if someone could tell me what the message means and
> > wether or not I should be worried about it.
> by default i would suggest worried mode.
> 
> what does fsck.reiserfs say?
> > 

nothing much : 

root@dragon:~# fsck.reiserfs /dev/sda4
reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com)

*************************************************************
** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and  it fails **
** please  email bug reports to reiserfs-list@namesys.com, **
** providing  as  much  information  as  possible --  your **
** hardware,  kernel,  patches,  settings,  all reiserfsck **
** messages  (including version),  the reiserfsck logfile, **
** check  the  syslog file  for  any  related information. **
** If you would like advice on using this program, support **
** is available  for $25 at  www.namesys.com/support.html. **
*************************************************************

Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sda4
Will put log info to 'stdout'

Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes
###########
reiserfsck --check started at Sun Jul 30 16:03:39 2006
###########
Replaying journal..
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sda4' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree..finished
Comparing bitmaps..finished
Checking Semantic tree:
finished
No corruptions found
There are on the filesystem:
        Leaves 139587
        Internal nodes 937
        Directories 33870
        Other files 516740
        Data block pointers 3875183 (1397 of them are zero)
        Safe links 0
###########
reiserfsck finished at Sun Jul 30 16:18:47 2006
###########
root@dragon:~#


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Re: 2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

[Andi Kleen]

"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> writes:

> I just got a warning message with 2.6.18-rc3 that I've never seen before :
> 
>   ReiserFS: sda4: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

I already often saw them with 2.6.16 on multiple machines.  Never
tracked down what the problem was though.

-Andi

Re: 2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

[Jesper Juhl]

On 30 Jul 2006 19:28:17 +0200, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I just got a warning message with 2.6.18-rc3 that I've never seen before :
> >
> >   ReiserFS: sda4: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item
>
> I already often saw them with 2.6.16 on multiple machines.  Never
> tracked down what the problem was though.
>
they don't seem to have caused any trouble/corruption here, so if you
haven't experienced any problems either I think I'll relax and just
wait for an explanation from some reiserfs folks.

Thank you for replying - nice to know that I'm not the only one seeing
this and that it's not something that has caused massive troubles for
someone else.


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Re: 2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
> I just got a warning message with 2.6.18-rc3 that I've never seen before :

Interesting. I have seen this by chance on a plain Debian 3.1r2 (which I 
already have deleted again in the meantime, because it was just that: a 
test vm).

> ReiserFS: sda4: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item


Jan Engelhardt
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Re: 2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

[Philippe Gramoullé]

Hello Jesper,

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:39:07 +0200
"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:

  | they don't seem to have caused any trouble/corruption here, so if you
  | haven't experienced any problems either I think I'll relax and just
  | wait for an explanation from some reiserfs folks.
  | 
  | Thank you for replying - nice to know that I'm not the only one seeing
  | this and that it's not something that has caused massive troubles for
  | someone else.

I reported such a message back in May 2004 ( kernel 2.6.6-rc3 ), to which 
Vladimir replied :

On Thu, 06 May 2004 14:43:22 +0400
Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> wrote:

  | I guess that warning became obsolete when Oleg <green@clusterfs.com>
  | added possibility to insert long indirect items.

Then Hans asked for that warning to be removed, and i guess it must have slipped through
the TODO list :)

Thanks,

Philippe

Re: 2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

[Vladimir V. Saveliev]

Hello

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 22:37 +0200, Philippe Gramoullé wrote:
> Hello Jesper,
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:39:07 +0200
> "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>   | they don't seem to have caused any trouble/corruption here, so if you
>   | haven't experienced any problems either I think I'll relax and just
>   | wait for an explanation from some reiserfs folks.
>   | 
>   | Thank you for replying - nice to know that I'm not the only one seeing
>   | this and that it's not something that has caused massive troubles for
>   | someone else.
> 
> I reported such a message back in May 2004 ( kernel 2.6.6-rc3 ), to which 
> Vladimir replied :
> 
> On Thu, 06 May 2004 14:43:22 +0400
> Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> wrote:
> 
>   | I guess that warning became obsolete when Oleg <green@clusterfs.com>
>   | added possibility to insert long indirect items.
> 
> Then Hans asked for that warning to be removed, and i guess it must have slipped through
> the TODO list :)
> 

Instead of removing that warning we changed it to not complain about
inserted long indirect items.

Maybe the warning can be removed completely. The warning was not
supposed to ever come up. As long as it does - there is a balancing case
which we did not imagine.
If anybody can easly reproduce this problem - please let me know.

> Thanks,
> 
> Philippe
> 

Re: 2.6.18-rc3 - ReiserFS - warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect item

[Josef Sipek]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:08:32PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> I just got a warning message with 2.6.18-rc3 that I've never seen before :
> 
>  ReiserFS: sda4: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory or indirect 
>  item
 
I have seen the same message (if I remember correctly) on my laptop whenever
I tried to _compile_ the nvidia driver - it wasn't loaded yet. A switch to
XFS made it go away ;)
 
Jeff.

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