From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Barremaecker Subject: Re: 13000Gig partition badblock check is the same -- do a reiserfsck again ? Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 17:28:47 +0200 Message-ID: <429F25AF.90405@mh.be> References: <1117392967.29669.ezmlm@namesys.com> <429A1742.8030504@mh.be> <200505292137.j4TLbarw017197@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <429AAFDC.4050208@mh.be> <429C6BE8.4090906@teleformix.com> <429C7153.8000008@mh.be> <429C7E46.9090507@teleformix.com> <429F199A.5020900@mh.be> <429F17A2.2070102@teleformix.com> <429F22D4.1040701@mh.be> <429F201B.6050707@teleformix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <429F201B.6050707@teleformix.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format="flowed" To: Dan Oglesby Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hi Dan, I'm using Gentoo kernel Linux hyperspace 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #6 SMP Tue Apr 19 23:40:58 CEST 2005=20 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Kind regardes, Matthias. Dan Oglesby wrote: > What kind of kernel are you running? I had to dump my RedHat kernel and = > use the latest kernel from http://www.kernel.org (2.4.30) for my system. >=20 > The problem I was having was due to the kernel being a bit old, and the=20 > hardware not handling bad blocks properly on an array. Updating the=20 > software, drivers, firmware and BIOS on everything in my system allowed=20 > reiserfsck to work properly, and fix my filesystem. >=20 > --Dan >=20 > Matthias Barremaecker wrote: >=20 >> Hi Dan, >> >> I'm glad you have your data back and just lost 2 files. It gives me a=20 >> bit of ... hope :)) >> >> The error I've got was : >> -------------------------------------------- >> 2 directory entries were hashed with not set hash. >> 731305 directory entries were hashed with "r5" hash. >> "r5" hash is selected >> Flushing..finished >> Read blocks (but not data blocks) 313507947 >> Leaves among those 439626 >> - corrected leaves 46 >> - leaves all contents of which could not be >> saved and deleted 56 >> pointers in indirect items to wrong area 3997 (zeroed) >> Objectids found 731997 >> >> Pass 1 (will try to insert 439570 leaves): >> ####### Pass 1 ####### >> Looking for allocable blocks .. finished >> 0%....20%....40%pass1.c 212 balance_condition_2_fails >> balance_condition_2_fails: block 1288402, pointer 168: The left >> delimiting key [1412453424 1412453424 0x10001000 ??? (15)] of the block >> (170046457) is wrong,the item cannot be found >> -------------------------------------------- >> >> What just doens't make any sens to me. >> >> I'm using version 3.6.19. >> >> If you have any ideas ... >> >> Thanx. >> >> kind regardes, >> >> >> Matthias. >> >> >> >> >> Dan Oglesby wrote: >> > Matthias Barremaecker wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> The first time, I did a bad block check, and feeded that list to the >> >> reiserfsck --rebuild-tree. >> >> >> >> The reiserfsck FAILED in phase 2. >> >> >> >> Now I have done a bad block check again and the list is the same, so >> >> no new bad blocks have occoured. >> >> >> >> Is it sane to do the reiserfsck --rebuild-tree again, or will it fail >> >> again? >> >> >> >> thanx. >> >> >> >> kind regardes, >> >> >> >> Matthias. >> > >> > >> > >> > What error did you get? Same as before? >> > >> > FWIW, I was able to successfully recover my corrupted array! Had to >> > update all hardware to latest BIOS/Firmware, all software and=20 >> drivers to >> > latest versions. Took two days to run, but it completed, and I=20 >> ended up >> > only losing 2 files out of over 1.1 million files on a 1TB RAID-5 >> > array. That's not too bad, considering how many times the machine=20 >> went >> > up and down due to bad power in the building. >> > >> > --Dan >> > >> > >> >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 Matthias Barremaecker, MH.BE - Arta nv 0495 30 31 72 http://mh.be/ SERVER HOUSING per 1HE =80 50 per maand 20Gig traffic, 100Mbit netwerk Center te Antwerpen.