Re: Errors requiring --rebuild-tree in 2.4.23

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Jens Benecke wrote:

>Chris Mason wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 08:51, Jens Benecke wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I posted earlier about quota problems. WE updated to 2.4.23 b ecause of
>>>the logging patches because some power failures made our /home partition
>>>spew out these: (QUESTIONS at the end of the mail)
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>>Sorry, before we got to the questions, what was the order of the events
>>above?
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>Oops. I guess I was a bit too confused myself. :)
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>1. Errors on /home in syslog, cron jobs running wild with i/o failures
>     system kept running for a couple days because nobody was there 
>     to fix it, though
>     Those errors were probably caused by power outages and 
>     a non-data-logging ReiserFS kernel.
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errors like this are not due to a lack of data-logging.

Dec  1 06:26:05 artus kernel: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second
one): *3.6* [113366 113466 0x1 DIRECT], item_len 280, item_location 1216,
free_space(entry_count) 65535

>2. Backup what's left of /home to firewire harddisk.
>3. Update to 2.4.23 with Chris' patches for data logging/quota
>4. Repartition hda2..4 (was needed anyway for drbd), 
>     reformat new /home (drbd), restore /home on drbd device
>5. crash of the server overnight, reboot (don't know why yet)
>6. couldn't reboot because root partition was totally b0rken
>7. reiserfsck --rebuild-tree under Knoppix, killed a couple files
>8. still running Knoppix, secondary server took over and is running now
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>btw: Is there a "reiserfs stress test" kind of thing to make sure a
>configuration works before sending it two time zones away for production? I
>plan on doing that in the next couple weeks. =;)
>Would bonnie++ accomplish this or are there better tests?
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Hans