[2.6.8] Strange FS corruption on sparc64

[2.6.8] Strange FS corruption on sparc64

[Joshua Kwan]

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Hello,

I've been tasking my UP sparc64 for a few days now to build lots of
kernels for Debian. However, during the build, it must have stumbled
across some inconsistency in my reiser3 filesystem:

ReiserFS: sda2: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory item
ReiserFS: sda2: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory item
ReiserFS: sda2: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory item
ReiserFS: sda2: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory item

Then, the build failed with

find: install-sparc64/drivers/sound/sb_ess.hsb_ess.cgus_midi.c: No such file or directory

It looks like somehow these files got their names concatenated together?
Is this a fluke problem; can I restart and have it go away, or mark sectors
as bad, etc., or is it something sparc64 dependent that should really be
fixed. Googling implies that it has been fixed long ago.

The machine has been up for only about a day and a half. It is running
the 2.6.8 kernel with a few patches used throughout Debian kernel
packages that do not affect reiserfs. What should I look at next?

Please CC, as I'm not subscribed to this list.

Thanks

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Joshua Kwan

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Re: [2.6.8] Strange FS corruption on sparc64

[René Rebe]

Hi,

Joshua Kwan wrote:

> I've been tasking my UP sparc64 for a few days now to build lots of
> kernels for Debian. However, during the build, it must have stumbled
> across some inconsistency in my reiser3 filesystem:

Interesting - I tried to use ReiserFS on my (UltraSPARC) SPARC, too. But 
at that time the reiserfsprogs did not liked to be compiled on sparc(32) 
due to the usage of kernel headers for bit operations and those are 
implemented in software on sparc32. Are the tools fixed in the meantime? 
Or do you use a 64bit only userspace version of the reiserfstools?

   René