how manage this? (was: Bug#304342: /sbin/mkreiserfs: created a filesystem with mkreiserfs -b 1024 ...)

how manage this? (was: Bug#304342: /sbin/mkreiserfs: created a filesystem with mkreiserfs -b 1024 ...)

[Domenico Andreoli]

hi,

  which advice i can give to those users finding these absurd and
obviously buggy behaviours? thanks.

cheers
domenico

----- Forwarded message from Miernik <miernik@ffii.org> -----

Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:26:33 +0200
From: Miernik <miernik@ffii.org>
Subject: Bug#304342: /sbin/mkreiserfs: created a filesystem with
    mkreiserfs -b 1024 and it hangs anything trying to write to it

Package: reiserfsprogs
Version: 1:3.6.19-1
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/mkreiserfs

I created a partition made of 2618595 sectors (~1.3 GB) /dev/hda6 and
created a filesystem on it with

mkreiserfs -b 1024 -l /var/cache/wwwoffle /dev/hda6

Anything trying to write on the filesystem (tried mc and touch) hangs
completely, shows about 60% to 65% CPU usage in top and is unkillable,
even with -9. After 20 minutes of such state I rebooted it with
<Alt>+<SysRq> b 
as nothing else would stop it. 
Then I tried "touch t1" on the filesystem, with the same result. 
<Alt>+<SysRq> b again. 
reboot won't work, as the partition would not unmount. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages reiserfsprogs depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libuuid1                    1.37-1       universally unique id library


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Re: how manage this? (was: Bug#304342: /sbin/mkreiserfs: created a filesystem with mkreiserfs -b 1024 ...)

[evilninja]

Domenico Andreoli schrieb:
> hi,
> 
>   which advice i can give to those users finding these absurd and
> obviously buggy behaviours? thanks.

the OP should provide more details, to see if it is a debian-specific 
bug or (again with proper details) forward it upstream, e.g. to this list ;)

details could be syslog messages while accessing the fs, strace 
snippets, does other (debian)kernels show the same errors, does 
mkfs.reiserfs on other harddisks (or imagefiles) show the same 
behaviour, what do other "-b" arguments do....

Re: how manage this? (was: Bug#304342: /sbin/mkreiserfs: created a filesystem with mkreiserfs -b 1024 ...)

[Vitaly Fertman]

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 18:48, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> hi,
> 
>   which advice i can give to those users finding these absurd and
> obviously buggy behaviours? thanks.
> 
> cheers
> domenico
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Miernik <miernik@ffii.org> -----
> 
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:26:33 +0200
> From: Miernik <miernik@ffii.org>
> Subject: Bug#304342: /sbin/mkreiserfs: created a filesystem with
>     mkreiserfs -b 1024 and it hangs anything trying to write to it
> 
> Package: reiserfsprogs
> Version: 1:3.6.19-1
> Severity: normal
> File: /sbin/mkreiserfs
> 
> I created a partition made of 2618595 sectors (~1.3 GB) /dev/hda6 and
> created a filesystem on it with
> 
> mkreiserfs -b 1024 -l /var/cache/wwwoffle /dev/hda6
> 
> Anything trying to write on the filesystem (tried mc and touch) hangs
> completely, shows about 60% to 65% CPU usage in top and is unkillable,
> even with -9. After 20 minutes of such state I rebooted it with
> <Alt>+<SysRq> b 
> as nothing else would stop it. 
> Then I tried "touch t1" on the filesystem, with the same result. 
> <Alt>+<SysRq> b again. 
> reboot won't work, as the partition would not unmount. 

only 4k blocksize seems to work now. fix is being prepared.

-- 
Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman