Re: How to break a reiserfs on Linux 2.4.20

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:16:11AM -0500, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> Oleg Drokin  <green@namesys.com> wrote:
> >Yes, we were able to reproduce the problem and now we are trying to fix it.
> >Thanks a lot for your help and for the script.
> Excellent!  :-)
> Just on a whim, I ran the tests on a different kernel image yesterday
> and got some different results in the syslog:
> Jan 15 18:26:00 berkelium kernel: journal-569: flush_commit_list, block already dirty!

Hm, these are something new for me.

> Jan 15 18:26:00 berkelium kernel: vs-13060: reiserfs_update_sd: stat data of object [537145 537147 0x0 SD] (nlink == 6) not found (pos 2)

I've seen these too right from the beginning.

> Then the kernel panicked.  I'm going to try this again and try to capture the 

Same for me. And I saw more debugging messages in fact.

> The main difference between the two kernels (aside from whether various SCSI
> and RAID drivers are built-in or modules) is the SMP flag and CPU type
> (Pentium 3 uniprocessor vs. 586 SMP).  Neither one had the REISER_CHECK
> option set.

Was the kernel in SMP mode? (I do my tests on UP)

Bye,
    Oleg