From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" Subject: Re: Filesystem corruption Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:39:34 +0400 Message-ID: <200705291239.34445.vs@namesys.com> References: <46598532.5060505@lncsa.com> <465B1C90.6040009@lncsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <465B1C90.6040009@lncsa.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Laurent CARON Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello On Monday 28 May 2007 22:16, Laurent CARON wrote: > Christian Kujau a =E9crit : > >> Please try to check the fs with a current version of reiserfsprogs=20 > >> first. As the manpage advises, try --check first and use=20 > >> --rebuild-tree only if you know what you're doing, IOW: have a current= =20 > >> backup. >=20 > Over the past few years, i experienced a few reiser corruption on=20 > various hardware (dell, hp, asus, sata, scsi, ide...) with the same=20 > symptoms (unredable file/dir). > Always ran check which told me to run fix-fixable or rebuild-tree, which= =20 > I did after ensuring of backup reliability, and the error was corrected=20 > (after eventually losing a few files i fortunately had in the backups). >=20 Would you run reiserfsck --check -l log and let us see the log? That may give a hint about which kind of corruptions do you have. > >> > >> Also, which kernel/machine is this running on? Do you know *why* this= =20 > >> corruption may have occured? Any recent hardware issues? Is ther=20 > >> anything in the logs regarding fs/device errors? >=20 > Kernel is 2.6.19. > The machine does not seem to have any HW issue, nothing strange in the=20 > logs..... :$ > This is just a plain Dell 2650 server with a bunch of SCSI HDD, software= =20 > raid5 array, reiserfs on top of it. >=20 > Laurent >=20 >=20 >=20