From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jose@tridentemonigotes.com Subject: [Fwd: Re: [reiserfs-list] Desaster Reiser] Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:41:27 -0400 Sender: jose@erazer.ows.es Message-ID: <3D78CCA7.6B1C1D13@tridentemonigotes.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" To: reiser -------- Original Message -------- 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 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