From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on a big filesystem Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:54:58 +0300 Message-ID: <3E06C152.8020909@namesys.com> References: <20021125143634.GC9006@mail.cekit.cz> <20021125143634.GC9006@mail.cekit.cz> <20021125174846.A31778@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Zygo Blaxell Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Oleg Drokin Zygo Blaxell wrote: >This thread is rather old, but I have basically the same problem... > >In article <20021125174846.A31778@namesys.com>, >Oleg Drokin wrote: > > >>On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:36:34PM +0100, Mira Temp?r wrote: >> >> >>>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. > > > Oleg, please reproduce this. It is not acceptable.... Thanks for the report Zygo. Hans