From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Desaster Reiser Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 15:04:21 +0400 Message-ID: <3D773A35.5070702@namesys.com> References: <3D776FEF.F34E655B@tridentemonigotes.com> <20020905140942.B19752@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Oleg Drokin Cc: jose@tridentemonigotes.com, reiser Oleg Drokin wrote: >Hello! > >On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:53:35AM -0400, jose@tridentemonigotes.com wrote: > > >> -I have a server 2.4.3 and something HD reiserfs. Yesterday one >>of this >>HD started to give me problems this is the message. >> >> > >2.4.3 kernel is very old ad is filled with known bugs both in reiserfs and other >parts of code. You should consider upgrading. > > > >> >> Let's put this a bit more strongly. 2.4.3 should never have shipped to users. It particularly has a ridiculously easy to hit bug in VFS that affected reiserfs that would have been found if there was a policy of test before shipping VFS changes. No one should be using it, and it is definitely worth your time to upgrade. We also have some not so easy but still possible to hit bugs in reiserfs up until 2.4.18. I suggest 2.4.19/18 which is known to be rock stable for us. 2.4.20-pre2 has some substantial performance improvements, but is more risky as it has not been as well tested. Hans