From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Oglesby Subject: Re: ReiserFS 3.6 errors Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 21:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: <4250AD57.1000309@teleformix.com> References: <42497B29.4020506@teleformix.com> <1112112098.4766.597.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <42497F90.9000500@teleformix.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: <42497F90.9000500@teleformix.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Dan Oglesby Cc: Vladimir Saveliev , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Dan Oglesby wrote: > Vladimir Saveliev wrote: > >> Hello >> >> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 19:58, 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? >>> >>> >> >> I do not think so. >> >> >> >>> This is on a RedHat 7.3 system, using kernel 2.4.20. >>> >> >> 2.4.20 is quite old. Would it be possible to use newer kernel? 2.4.29, >> namely? >> >> >> > At this point I cannot update the kernel. I am using the 2.4.20 kernel > due to limitations of some of the software that runs on this machine. > > I am going to take another look at the hardware (make sure everything's > cabled properly, etc), reinstall the OS, and remake the filesystems. > After recreating the reiserfs filesystems, making no other changes, I see zero errors in dmesg. Machines have had stress testing performed, no problems so far. --Dan