[Fwd: Re: [reiserfs-list] Desaster Reiser]

[jose@tridentemonigotes.com]

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Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Desaster Reiser
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:40:28 -0400
From: jose@tridentemonigotes.com
Organization: Monigotes Animacion
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
References: <3D776FEF.F34E655B@tridentemonigotes.com>
<20020905140942.B19752@namesys.com>

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.
> 
> > After this with reiserfs --check /dev/hdb2 this is the message that gave
> > me
> 
> What reiserfsprogs version do you have?
> If that's not the last one (3.6.3), you should download reiserfsprogs-3.6.3 from
> our ftp site.
> 
> > I probed with badblocks and reiserfsck --rebuild -sd but was not
> > anithing problem and my fear is I wrote that somebody have lose their HD
> > with reiserfsck --rebuild -tree because after can't mount their units.I
> 
> That was possible because of reiserfsck crash for example, data are still not
> lost though partition cannot be mounted.
> 
> > think that this is the last option if I have another
> > Have another options before my HD is totally crash and all information
> > is missing?
> 
> Well, if you want to be on safe side, you can create metadata snapshot
> (debugreiserfs -p /dev/device | gzip -9c >metadata.gz) and make it available for
> us to download.

I attach the file hdb2.gz after I create metadata snapshot. I hope that
you can verify without any problem


 and we can verify that reiserfsprogs will work as expected.
> Make sure you use reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 version for that operation.

My old version of reiserfsprog was 3.6.2 but now is 3.6.3 

> Or you can download reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree
> from there and only contact us if it will crash. (with metaadta, too).

Respect this I would like another options before if that posible 
> 
> Also after your problems are over you will need to upgrade the kernel to avoid
> future corruptions.

You sure that after this problem I will upgrading and check the units
every week
> 
>Thank You
By

Jose