Re: Desaster Reiser

[jose@tridentemonigotes.com]

jose@tridentemonigotes.com wrote:
> 
> 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