Re: rebuild fs

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Vitaly Fertman wrote:

>>>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
>>>      
>>>
>>yuck.  vs, complain to vitaly please.
>>    
>>
>
>It does not look the same as the user gets different messages on the terminal.
>With hardware problems like IO errors he gets "Aborting", although this can dump
>the core file also. But what a user should not get even with the broken hardware 
>is "Segmentation fault" messages. And core dumping is what looks really pretty 
>much the same. 
>
>As some old version of reiserfsck (3.6.3) stopped unexpectedly, Oleg suggested 
>to use the latest one -- 3.6.11 -- which worked ok for now.
>
>Regarding IO errors reiserfsck prints "Block ## cannot be read" before aborting 
>and the last ones suggest to check the hardware also.
>
>BTW, if there are some bad blocks I would advise to use dd_rescue instead of dd
>as dd has some problems with bad blocks handling.
>
>  
>
ok, you fixed the unfriendliness in latest version, excellent.

-- 
Hans