Re: rebuild fs

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Oleg Drokin wrote:

>Hello!
>
>On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:28:25PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>>>>>rephrase that as, use 3.6.11, if it still fails, tell us, the segfault 
>>>>>>will at least be fixed regardless of whether fsck has enough data to do 
>>>>>>its job.
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>>>>>But it was not failing on the IDE drive anyway.
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>>>>I don't understand the relevance of your statement to mine.
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>>>>
>>>Since after transferring image to IDE made reiserfsck to not fail (and it 
>>>failed on raid5 due to raid errors,
>>>I think), your "if it still fails" statement was not adequate., 
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>>>
>>Even with a broken hard drive, there should be no userspace segfault.... 
>>or am I wrong?
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>in this case (IO error) reiserfsck does abort() which ends up as signal number 5, and core is dumped if this is allowed.
>Looks pretty much like segfault too.
>Though a message is printed prior to this that we cannot read some block.
>
>Bye,
>    Oleg
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yuck.  vs, complain to vitaly please.

-- 
Hans