From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hanasaki Subject: Re: --rebuild-tree always finds errors --check is ok Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 18:44:06 -0600 Message-ID: <41DF2CD6.7040800@hanaden.com> References: <41D71C4E.6000209@hanaden.com> <1104849038.32178.54.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <41DAD195.1080306@hanaden.com> <200501072343.08374.vitaly@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200501072343.08374.vitaly@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Could you outline exactly what takes place on a rebuild-tree? I was under the incorrect assumption that if a rebuild-tree is 100% successful then the FS is ok and a subsequent rebuild-tree will have nothing to fix/report. ..... Vitaly Fertman wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 20:25, hanasaki wrote: > >>Version of reiserfsk >>====================== >>== From debian sarge >>/sbin/reiserfsck -V >>reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com) >>== also used the version in knoppix 3.7 with similar results >> >>the output of two consecutive runs of --rebuild-tree on the same >>unmounted partition are attached. Below is the diff > > > rebuild-tree finds some blocks that looks like reiserfs formatted > blocks for the first sight whereas they are not and just belongs to > some file bodies. The consistency check reveals no valid metadata > in them, so they are considered as not valid reiserfs formatted blocks > and left not modified on disk. This is why the second run of rebuild-tree > finds them again and tries to do all the stuff again. >