Reiserfs corruption problem.

[Jean-Michel Bonnefond <bon@teamlog.Fr>]

Hi all,

I have a 40Go ide disk that is mounted with one big partition containing all 
my clients datas on a linux debian woody. I was working as usual on the 
server when I suddenly couldn't no more list the contents of the root mount 
point (/part) but could continue working and looking into the files all under 
the root, (/part/distrib) and can cd into all the sub-directories. I just 
can't access to the root partition contents with an error message that I 
unfortunately haven't keep.

I decide to reboot the server in order to plug another ide disk to copy all 
data to this disk but, as soon as I umount the disk, I was unable to remount 
it. It replies me :
mount: is not a repertory (traduction of the french error message).

The reiserfsck do reply :

root@interne:~# reiserfsck /dev/hdc1
<--------reiserfsck 3.6.4, 2002-------->

Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/hdc1
Will put log info to 'stdout'

Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes

******************************************************
* Warning: The dma on your hard drive is turned off. *
* This may really slow down the fsck process.        *
******************************************************
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reiserfsck --check started at Tue Mar  1 15:19:46 2004
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Replaying journal..
0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree../  1 (of   2)bad_internal: vpf-10320: block 8384, 
items 5 and 6: The wrong order of items: [2 2310 0x52a2001 IND (1)], [0 2311 
0x69db001 IND (1)]
 the problem in the internal node occured (8384), whole subtree is skipped
finished
Comparing bitmaps..vpf-10640: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs.
Bad nodes were found, Semantic pass skipped
1 found corruptions can be fixed only during --rebuild-tree
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reiserfsck finished at Tue Mar  2 10:20:00 2004
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root@interne:~#

So I does a dd_rescue of the disk to another one wich hadn't notice any 
hardware problem, all the physical disk can be acceseed well. 
and then I launch a --rebuild-tree.

The first stage seem to pass correctly but the second pass loop infinitely on 
message :

do_pass_2: The block (level=28869, nr_item=905, free_space=49895 rdkey), 
marked as a leaf on the first two passe, is not a leaf! Will be skipped.


So do you have any suggestion on what I can do now and how I can acces again 
to my datas, even temporarily to copy them eslewhere? 

Thanks for your help.
Jean-Michel.