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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Subject: Re: corruption?  how do I fix?
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:13:59 -0500
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To: Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>, kenny gorman <kgorman@panix.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

On November 13, 2002 04:41 pm, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > >> I am running a semi-large oracle database on reiserfs and lvm.  I
> > >> started receiving block corruption messages in oracle.  So I started
>
> Do you mean I/O error messages? reiserfsck does not check partitions
> for badblocks so I would suggest you to run /sbin/badblocks utility first.
> If you have badblocks on your device, it is a bad idea to continue using
> your harddrive, you probably should get a working one.

Vitaly, Bad blocks on an oracle db do not (necessarily) imply io errors.  In 
this case there is fs corruption as reported by reiserfsck 3.6.4.

Kenny, if I were you I would make sure I have a backup and logs and they
run with fix-fixable - reiserfsck has worked well here.

Ed Tomlinsons