how manage this? (was: Bug#304342: /sbin/mkreiserfs: created a filesystem with mkreiserfs -b 1024 ...)

[Domenico Andreoli <cavok@tiscali.it>]

hi,

  which advice i can give to those users finding these absurd and
obviously buggy behaviours? thanks.

cheers
domenico

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:26:33 +0200
From: Miernik <miernik@ffii.org>
Subject: Bug#304342: /sbin/mkreiserfs: created a filesystem with
    mkreiserfs -b 1024 and it hangs anything trying to write to it

Package: reiserfsprogs
Version: 1:3.6.19-1
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/mkreiserfs

I created a partition made of 2618595 sectors (~1.3 GB) /dev/hda6 and
created a filesystem on it with

mkreiserfs -b 1024 -l /var/cache/wwwoffle /dev/hda6

Anything trying to write on the filesystem (tried mc and touch) hangs
completely, shows about 60% to 65% CPU usage in top and is unkillable,
even with -9. After 20 minutes of such state I rebooted it with
<Alt>+<SysRq> b 
as nothing else would stop it. 
Then I tried "touch t1" on the filesystem, with the same result. 
<Alt>+<SysRq> b again. 
reboot won't work, as the partition would not unmount. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages reiserfsprogs depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libuuid1                    1.37-1       universally unique id library


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