From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: fs errors on thinkpad R31 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:07:23 +0300 Message-ID: <20030110180723.A16153@namesys.com> References: <200301092320.48501.bernd-schubert@web.de> <20030110173246.A10156@namesys.com> <200211101555.52164.bernd-schubert@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211101555.52164.bernd-schubert@web.de> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bernd Schubert Cc: ReiserFS Hello! On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:55:51PM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > > this is the second time within 14 days after which I had to run > > > reiserfsck on my IBM Thinkpad R31. > > > This time I lost a directory with 49 files (it seems it were only kernel > > > modules, so probably not so important data). > > > I have attached the error messages from the /var/log/messages file. > > Hm. Looks like some blocks have unexpected contents. > > Do you often uncleanly turn-off/run out of battaries prior to > > corruption? > > Try to disable write caching in your harddrive then. (hdparm -W0 /dev/hda) > thanks for your help. When I had to run reiserfsck for the very first time, I > thought this as well, since there where some unexpected crashes in December > and I run one day before the first fsck out of batteries. But ever since this > fsck, nothing like this happend again (I found the reason for the crashes and > never needed to run on accu since this time). Still blocks are filled with some garbage it seems. Do you suspend/resume your laptop? May be that corrupts memory or something? > Should I enable reiserfs-debugging within the kernel configuration ? Any other > possibilities to debug this ? Probably first you need to find out usage pattern that leads to corruption. Bye, Oleg