Re: an incident with reiser4

[Christian <evilninja@gmx.net>]

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sergey ivanov wrote:
> # fsck.reiser4 --build-fs /dev/evms/home |tee /root/reiser4.log, and
> after some minutes the filesystem is consystent.
> But alas, all the messages was not directed to stdout, but stderr, so
> the file /root/reiser4.log was empty.

use "fsck.reiser4 --build-fs /dev/evms/home 2>&1 |tee /root/reiser4.log"
to also get stderr messages to the logfile.

> 2) Is it possible to check information at this filesystem, by reiser4
> tools or some another way, - or I should wait if some of mail users
> complain about corrupted or missing information?

as several other readers here pointed out - reiser4 is still beta, don't
use it in production but use it everwhere else to shake out all the
remaining bugs ;)

if you're already using it in production and fsck.reiser4 reports no more
errors, i can't think of any other way than to diff your current reiserfs
with a snapshot made earlier. but since files under /home and especially
mails are always "in flight", this would require a lot of manual "this
file is different, because..." actions.

> 3) Is it possible to identify the problem, or it is gone since I have
> not redirected output of fsck.reiser4 right way?

sorry, can't help you here.

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