From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Oglesby Subject: Re: ReiserFS 3.6 errors Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:48:35 -0600 Message-ID: <4249BF23.5090102@teleformix.com> References: <42497B29.4020506@teleformix.com> <20050329191439.GB5843@backtop.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: <20050329191439.GB5843@backtop.namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Alex Zarochentsev Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Alex Zarochentsev wrote: >Hi, > >On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:58:33AM -0600, Dan Oglesby wrote: > > >>Greetings, >> >>I just finished installing a machine that uses ReiserFS v3.6 >>filesystems, one of which is on a RAID-5 device off of a 3Ware 7506 >>controller. >> >>After the build, a stress test was run that generates a lot of disk I/O, >>and I saw the following in dmesg: >> >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1162690892 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1162690892 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1162690892 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1162690892 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1162690892 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1162690892 >>, item_len 14136, item_location 10272, free_space(entry_count) 11827 >>vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 2029494. Fsck? >>vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat >>data of [40 171378 0x0 SD] >>is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second one): *3.6* [40 357194 0x0 >>SD], item_len 44, item_location 2412, free_space(entry_count) 65535 >>vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 3864557. Fsck? >>vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat >>data of [40 357181 0x0 SD] >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1647255672 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1647255672 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1647255672 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1647255672 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1647255672 >>vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1647255672 >>, item_len 27951, item_location 29803, free_space(entry_count) 28265 >>vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 4488286. Fsck? >>vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat >>data of [40 453681 0x0 SD] >> >>I did see something in the FAQ about requiring a reboot after changing >>partitions on a disk. Unfortunately, I didn't see this until after the >>machine was built. Could these errors be caused from a lack of a reboot >>between partitioning the disk and running mkreiserfs? >> >>This is on a RedHat 7.3 system, using kernel 2.4.20. >> >> > >isn't it a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel from ftp.kernel.org? > >there were reports that reiserfs does not work well in RH kernels. stock >2.4.20 might work much better. usually their kernels are patched a lot, some >kernel patch may cause reiserfs instability. > > > It's a 2.4.20 kernel from RedHat. We're stuck using it because of dependancies of other software on the system, so we can't upgrade at the moment. --Dan