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From: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic with reiserfs during a rm command; complains about j_len too long during journal_mark_dirty
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:44:39 +0400
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Hi,

On Monday 03 April 2006 09:31, Kelvie Wong wrote:
> Attached is the relevant dmesg output; I have ran rebuild-tree, and
> when I try to rm certain files, I get the same error (a segfault),
> then it hangs.
>
> Tell me if you need more information; I'd really like to know if this
> is a kernel/reiserfs problem, or rather if I need a new hard drive.

It is a reiserfs bug, please use 2.6.17-rc1 which has a fix for it,

or apply
ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16/2.6.16-mm1/broken-out/reiserfs-fix-transaction-overflowing.patch

-- 
Alex.