problems with /var/lib/dpkg/info

problems with /var/lib/dpkg/info

[Radim Kolar]

I have 3 debian gnu linux machines here with reiserfs. I am using
reiserfs about 2 years and when i have some kind of problem with
reiserfs  -  it is allways  with /var/lib/dpkg/info  directory.
It looks like  there is  too many hash collisions or reiserfs  do not
likes long directories.

Because of my previous bad experiences with losing this directory -  i am
using rdist to backup it now. In some cases both directories (original
and backup) are corrupted. 

i have 3090 files  in  this directory - this is not  that much, on ext2
it is quite slow when compared to reiser, but ext2 do not have any
problems with directory  corruption here. Anybody experienced this?

Re: problems with /var/lib/dpkg/info

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:05:29AM +0200, Radim Kolar wrote:

> I have 3 debian gnu linux machines here with reiserfs. I am using
> reiserfs about 2 years and when i have some kind of problem with
> reiserfs  -  it is allways  with /var/lib/dpkg/info  directory.
> It looks like  there is  too many hash collisions or reiserfs  do not
> likes long directories.

reiserfs have no problems with large directories generally speaking.
What are the problems you are experience?

Bye,
    Oleg

Re: problems with /var/lib/dpkg/info

[Ed Tomlinson]

On August 10, 2002 05:05 am, Radim Kolar wrote:
> I have 3 debian gnu linux machines here with reiserfs. I am using
> reiserfs about 2 years and when i have some kind of problem with
> reiserfs  -  it is allways  with /var/lib/dpkg/info  directory.
> It looks like  there is  too many hash collisions or reiserfs  do not
> likes long directories.
>
> Because of my previous bad experiences with losing this directory -  i am
> using rdist to backup it now. In some cases both directories (original
> and backup) are corrupted.
>
> i have 3090 files  in  this directory - this is not  that much, on ext2
> it is quite slow when compared to reiser, but ext2 do not have any
> problems with directory  corruption here. Anybody experienced this?

I have debian runing on reiserfs and have had it for several years.  No 
problems with directory corruption here.

Ed Tomlinson

Re: problems with /var/lib/dpkg/info

[Adrian Phillips]

>>>>> "Radim" == Radim Kolar <hsn@cybermail.net> writes:

    Radim> I have 3 debian gnu linux machines here with reiserfs. I am
    Radim> using reiserfs about 2 years and when i have some kind of
    Radim> problem with reiserfs - it is allways with
    Radim> /var/lib/dpkg/info directory.  It looks like there is too
    Radim> many hash collisions or reiserfs do not likes long
    Radim> directories.

    Radim> Because of my previous bad experiences with losing this
    Radim> directory - i am using rdist to backup it now. In some
    Radim> cases both directories (original and backup) are corrupted.

I have also been running with reiser using 3.5 format for a couple of
years on Debian without problems using r5 hash. What hash have you
been formatting with ? (and how much difference does it make ?),

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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Re: problems with /var/lib/dpkg/info

[Radim Kolar]

> reiserfs have no problems with large directories generally speaking.
> What are the problems you are experience?
inaccessible files (shown in directory but can not be read). In some
cases both source and rdisted copy was corrupted on the same files.
I am now using tar+gz for backup instead rdist :)