From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Zarochentsev Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 -> 2.6 migration Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 13:11:33 +0300 Message-ID: <20031108101133.GS11516@backtop.namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Sebastian Kaps Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Vitaly Fertman On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:39:06PM +0100, Sebastian Kaps wrote: > Hi! > > Is there something concerning ReiserFS I should know when migrating from > Linux 2.4 to Linux 2.6? > > I'm asking because a few days ago I downloaded and compiled 2.6.0-test9 > just for curiosity. It booted fine and I went back to my "standard" > kernel, which was 2.4.23-pre5 at that time. Right after booting the > 2.4.x kernel, I got lots of the following messages in my logs: > ,---- > | kernel: ide2(33,3):vs-4080: reiserfs_free_block: free_block (2103:463529)[dev:blocknr]: bit already cleared test-9/reiser3 works fine for us. Your problems could be due to a bug in updated IDE driver, for example. Do other filesystems (like ext2) work? Can you send a .config (from 2.6.0-test-9) and describe your hardware configuration to the reiserfs-dev@namesys.com mailing list? > `---- > The block number always differed. Gladly, "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree" > helped to cure that, but there were lots of unusable files after that > (e.g. parts of files overwritten with parts of other files). I think that reiserfsck --rebuild-tree trusts the bitmap content, which is not good for your case. Vitaly will answer better. > > Is this suppose to happen? What caused this error? > > Another thing: I had to "hard reboot" my system a few times in the last > few months. I also experienced that sometimes parts of files were > overwritten with 0x00s or parts of other files. Can someone explain to > me how this can happen? > > -- > Ciao, Sebastian -- Alex.