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* reiser4 corruption problem (maybe related to "Broken reiser4 FS")
@ 2004-08-26 23:15 Michael Weissenbacher
  2004-08-27 11:30 ` Francesco Biscani
  2004-08-28 21:49 ` fsck.reiser4 problem (was: reiser4 corruption problem) Michael Weissenbacher
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Michael Weissenbacher @ 2004-08-26 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: reiserfs-list

i've tested reiser4 on a spare partition to see how well it would work 
for me. unfortunately i hit some corruption problem. it seems perfectly 
reproducable, so hardware error is very unlikely.

first some details on my system:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
512 MB DDR-RAM (tested with memtest)
MSI K7N2G board (nforce2 chipset)
hard disk for testing: MAXTOR 6L080J4 (80GB), partitioned like:
    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1        4866    39086113+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2            4867        9732    39086145   83  Linux
criminal mnt # uname -a
Linux criminal 2.6.8.1-mm4 #4 Wed Aug 25 01:34:48 CEST 2004 i686 AMD 
Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
the distro is gentoo and i use reiser4progs1.0.1

the test i did is rather simple: i have a 2.3GB .tar.bz2 file that 
cotains 66588 files and about 3.1GB of data. in the first test i 
formatted /dev/hdb1 as reiser4 and /dev/hdb2 as reiser3. i extracted the 
.tar.bz2 on both of them. after that i umounted both and ran a fsck on 
them. the reiser3 partition was ok, but the reiser4 partition was 
corrupted.

ok, but what's really intersting now:
i reformatted both partitions and switched hdb1 to reiser3 and hdb2 to 
reiser4. i extracted the same file on both and what happens? exaclty the 
same corrutions now on hdb2 (at least the count is the same and the 
errors look very similar)! and again reiser3 is ok!

i put the output of both tests into a file that is available at
http://www.dermichi.com/ablage/reiser4/reiser4_troubles.txt

i've already had the exact same problems before, i mean errors like:
FSCK: Directory [109e8:416c7400000000:109ee] (dir40), node [216782], 
item [1],
unit [22]: entry has wrong offset
[109ee:0(NAME):142657765726275:6e6746fc72416e77:135160352fe624]. Should be
[109ee:0(NAME):142657765726275:6e6746fc72416e77:13514d8cfe19f4].
while doing random other things on reiser4 partitions and fsck'ing 
afterwards. using --build-fs created lots of files under lost+found and 
i started over. i will leave the fs this time, maybe i can try some 
things to find the cause of the problem.

anyone got an idea?

thanks,
michael weissenbacher

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* Re: fsck.reiser4 problem (was: reiser4 corruption problem)
@ 2004-08-31  1:24 David Dabbs
  2004-08-31  8:52 ` Michael Weissenbacher
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: David Dabbs @ 2004-08-31  1:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Weissenbacher, reiserfs-list


| Michael Weissenbacher 
> David Dabbs wrote:
> Even though both file sets contain umlauts, or perhaps more accurately extended
> ASCII chartacters, there is something distinctive in the "failure" set: the 
> umlauts/extended characters appear after the 15th character. If you are using 
> REISER4_LARGE_KEYS, the first fifteen characters will be shifted into the second
> and third key elements with the final key el containing the hash of the remaining
> characters 
| exactly! the problem occurs when using extended characters that appear
| after the 15th character!

> Code in fs/reiser4/kassign.c assembles the key and uses your chosen hash, R5 
> being the default. If you created the files without failure, could read/opened
> them okay but then FSCK reported problems, could this point to a difference in
> the hash code (w.r.t. extended ASCII)? I'm on holiday now, so cannot check 
> to see if this suspicion holds any water. 

| yes, create/read/open works ok, a diff shows no difference. after my 
| first tests i panicked because fsck.reiser4 reported "fatal corruptions" 
| and used --build-fs as suggested. fsck.reiser4 then moved these files to 
| the lost+found directory. fsck.reiser4 didn't report corruoption after 
| that, but there was no way of finding out where the files were before or 
| what their names were. so with this bug fsck.reiser4 is unusable for my 
| situation.
| 
| would it do any good trying without the REISER4_LARGE_KEYS option?
| 

Probably not. All that will do is drop the third key element, so you will then likely see problems with names where the extended character(s) appear after the seventh character. If you feel energetic and want to do it, try disabling LARGE_KEY, and retesting. Before doing so, however, try setting the filesystem's default fibration plugin to none or whatever the 'no fibration' option is. This will remove fibration code from the suspect list if the retest is successful. 

| thanks for your time,
| Michael

My pleasure. Thank /you/ for helping to debug!

David D.

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