Re: reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on a big filesystem

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Zygo Blaxell wrote:

>This thread is rather old, but I have basically the same problem...
>
>In article <20021125174846.A31778@namesys.com>,
>Oleg Drokin  <green@namesys.com> wrote:
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>>On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:36:34PM +0100, Mira Temp?r wrote:
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>>>my setup:
>>>linux 2.4.18 SMP, HW RAID5, nearly full 240GB reiserfs of mostly small files,
>>>reiserprogs 3.6.4.
>>>With advice to run --rebuild-tree.
>>>      
>>>
>
>Mine:
>
>Linux 2.4.18 UP (SMP kernel), SW RAID0 and linear, nearly full 160GB
>reiserfs of mostly small files, reiserfsprogs 1:3.6.3-1 (Debian).  I had
>two machines go through a power failure while doing lots of concurrent
>hard links and deletes.  The linear system survived apparently intact,
>while the RAID0 system had the usual "stat Permission denied"
>problem.
>
>This has happened a number of times before on a variety of systems
>(it seems to be reiserfs's most common failure mode).  The events are
>very similar each time.  AFAICT you just have to set up a reiserfs on
>some kind of RAID system and let it run through a few power failures to
>reproduce the problem.
>
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>
Oleg, please reproduce this.  It is not acceptable....

Thanks for the report Zygo.

Hans