Re: vpf-10680, minor corruptions

[Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>]

hi again,

i did some further testings on this issue and the results are as follows:

as stated before, the corruptions occur only on this very alpha machine, 
i386 (2.5.72) is not affected here.

i staretd the alpha then with a 2.4.21. i created an fs on /dev/sde2, 
reiserfsck passed with no errors. i mounted the partition, copied /lib 
to it, diff showed _no_ differences, which was good. then something 
unexecpected happened: i unmounted the partition right after the 
"diff..." finished and wanted to reiserfsck the patition again, but this 
time reiserfsck complained about:

[...]
The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem.
If you have bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard
drive, because once you get one bad block that the disk
[...]
that so many blocks have gone bad that none remain in
reserve to allocate.
 

bread: Cannot read the block (523914): (Input/output error).

hah! i was not aware that the disk might have an hw problem, not a 
single error ever showed up in my logs. this was weird. so i 
re-partitioned the disk with a 10MB sde (to circumvent the bread error) 
on the beginning and a 2 GB sde2. now reiserfsck/cp/diff are all working 
fine under 2.4.21, but 2.5.72 is still erroneous.

btw: i am still using reiserfsprogs 3.6.8 now (since debian/testing has 
3.6.6) and i have compiled these utils under a 2.5.72 kernel. is it safe 
to use them under 2.4 ?

thanks,
Christian.