From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Kujau Subject: Re: vpf-10680, minor corruptions Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:38:20 +0200 Message-ID: <3EF702CC.9050005@g-house.de> References: <3EF07AFB.8060303@g-house.de> <20030618152626.GA17240@namesys.com> <3EF0A8E8.2000209@g-house.de> <20030619054535.GA23852@namesys.com> <3EF6AE67.5090502@namesys.com> <20030623090258.GA12259@namesys.com> <3EF6C83F.6060702@namesys.com> Reply-To: evil@g-house.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <3EF6C83F.6060702@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: ReiserFS List 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.