Re: ReiserFS problems

[Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@harddisk-recovery.nl>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:48:52PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:

> reiserfsck --rebuild-tree is special, it actually reads in all the
> blocks on the device that are marked as used, to find metadata
> blocks and connect them to the tree (even if they were previously
> unconnected).  Unlike many other filesystems out there, reiserfs
> does not have fixed metadata locations, hence we absolutely need
> this scan.
> > later. So we hit control-C on the fsck.
> 
> That was big mistake.

Well, I forgot to say this in my last Email: but it's a big mistake
for "--rebuild-tree" to START by writing to the filesystem. As for a
large (and full) filesystem it is going to take HOURS to read the
whole thing, the first write to the filesystem should happen AFTER
reading all the datablocks.

			Roger. 

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