Re: Better fsck.reiser4 needed

["Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>]

Hello

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 12:01, Joe Feise wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that fsck.reiser4 -a doesn't do anything. It doesn't even detect
> corruption.

I think it is made that way with intention. If fsck.reiser4 -a did corruption 
detection bootup process would take long time and users would not have the 
main advantage of journalled filesystems - quick recovering after unclean 
shutdown.

> I had a /var corruption (reiser4 on /var) over the weekend, and since I was
> out of town, the machine was hanging trying to go into multi-user mode 

I guess here you got reiser4 bug where it hanged trying to access corrupted 
partition instead of returning -EIO. Was there anything interesting in logs 
and have you managed to catch them?

> for 
> a day before I could fix the corruption manually. An fsck that actually
> would do some automatic repairs (e.g., like ext3 which I use as the root
> partition) would be really helpful.
> For now, I have resorted to --fix -y at bootup time for all my reiser4
> partitions, but that's just a quick hack, and rather unsatisfactory.
>
> Cheers,
> -Joe