Re: ReiserFS is not suitable for a root FS.

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:22:25PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

> > BTW, were there any news on "reiserfs corruptions on crypto loop mounted devices" tests with 2.4.21-rc2?
> Unfortunately, I wasn't successful in reproducing the corruption. OTOH,
> I now use reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 instead of 3.6.4 before. Were there any
> fixes committed to resize_reiserfs in the meantime?

I do not see anything important, just some minor journal opening stuff.

> What strikes me as odd is the fact that vs-5150 errors seem to coincide
> with resizing when you look at past messages to the list.

Yes, this is strange.

> Do your data structures grow linearly or to next 2^n bytes with
> filesystem size? The last resize operations I tried did not cross any
> 2^n bytes boundary, while the ones before corruption crossed 512 MB,
> 1024 MB, 2048 MB boundary respectively.

No, the resize process only adds one more bitmap for every ~128M of disk space

> Another shot in the dark: maybe resize_reiserfs does not update/check
> the node level correctly, i.e. it checks against correct values before
> resize instead of after resize?

When you grow the filesystem, no tree nodes are touched at all.
Only size in superblock is updated and new bitmaps are added.

Bye,
    Oleg