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From: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: journal too big
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:23:42 +0400
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To: sudo Yang <sudoyang@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 02 August 2005 23:16, sudo Yang wrote:
> This is on the 2.4.20 kernel.

Really? I see your reiserfs crash message contains "2.6.8-1.521smp" string.

Jul 23 09:52:13 csd01a-bld kernel: EIP:    0060:[<f88f8ab2>]    Not tainted
Jul 23 09:52:13 csd01a-bld kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282   (2.6.8-1.521smp)
Jul 23 09:52:13 csd01a-bld kernel: EIP is at reiserfs_panic+0x36/0x56 

The bug exists in both 2.4.x and 2.6.x branches, but the fix isn't backported 
to 2.4.x.

> On 8/2/05, Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 20:48, sudo Yang wrote:
> > > Some of our systems are getting a kernel panic.  This error is logged
> > > to /var/log/messages:
> > >
> > > Jul 23 09:52:13 csd01a-bld kernel: REISERFS: panic (device sdb1):
> > > journal-1413: journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > > We'r eusing ReiserfsFS 3.x.  What does this error mean?  What can we
> > > do about it?
> >
> > Would you please try the attached patch?  it is for 2.6.9 but applies
> > cleanly to 2.6.8.
> >
> > > Thanks