From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Subject: Re: r4 observations Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:02:01 +0400 Message-ID: <200609211502.01497.vs@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello On Wednesday 20 September 2006 22:47, Peter wrote: > I booted from a non-reiser4 partition in order to make a backup of my main > / which was a r4 partition. > > After the backup, I unmounted the drive explicitly, then rebooted. > > I did not use the backed up drive for anything except tar-ring its files. > > On next boot to the r4 / partition, all kinds of file not found errors > occurred. I booted again to my non-r4 partition, and ran fsck.reiser4 > --check -y there were fatal errors on my r4 /. > > The backup was fine. I downgraded back to reiserfs which does not exhibit > this problem. > > I have not experienced any problem with other r4 partitions. Just /. > /home, /tmp, /src, etc. are fine. > > Unfortunately, I don't have time to keep wondering where the problem is or > why. Perhaps it's the kernel or the init scripts. Nonetheless, the > instability of whatever the problem is is unnerving. > Please provide information about which kernel and which reiser4 did you use. Am I correct that you were trying to run gentoo on reiser4?