Re: reiser4 crash

[Francesco Biscani <frbiscani@jumpy.it>]

On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:41, Markus Törnqvist wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:27:54PM +0200, Francesco Biscani wrote:
> >Hope this is useful. I'll be glad to give more details is asked to.
> >Regards,
>
> Try patching in
> http://mjt.nysv.org/reiser/log-write-readpage-releasepage-2.diff.gz
>
> Then recompile the kernel with debugging and assertions (printing was iirc
> not required) turned on and try to reproduce it.
>

Well, I'll try to do something but it'll be difficult. On the laptop I have 
reiser4 on /, and I cannot afford to break it. I could try on the workstation 
at home where I have a test partition for reiser4, but I'll be away until the 
next weekend. Maybe some other Gentoo user could help (Redeeman are you 
listening? :))

> Note, that this may cause your system to oops and go haywire big time, so
> if you have a netconsole or something to log, it's great.
> One other method is cat /proc/kmsg > foo and scping foo elsewhere before
> the computer goes down.
>

Ok.

An update: I have found a dir called 

"lost_name_<insert garbage here>"

I've fixed the name, which obviously was lost during --build-fs. I'm getting a 
bit psychotic about this but is there anything I can do to make sure 
everything is alright? I've searched for other lost names but I found 
nothing. The system is working as normal. Should I expect that something was 
lost at all? It is a bit strange because the dir with the garbled name was 
not open in write mode when the crash happened. Should I expect random 
corruption to be happened?

Thanks very much.