From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent CARON Subject: Re: Filesystem corruption Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 20:16:48 +0200 Message-ID: <465B1C90.6040009@lncsa.com> References: <46598532.5060505@lncsa.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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Christian Kujau a =E9crit : >> Please try to check the fs with a current version of reiserfsprogs=20 >> first. As the manpage advises, try --check first and use=20 >> --rebuild-tree only if you know what you're doing, IOW: have a current=20 >> backup. Over the past few years, i experienced a few reiser corruption on=20 various hardware (dell, hp, asus, sata, scsi, ide...) with the same=20 symptoms (unredable file/dir). Always ran check which told me to run fix-fixable or rebuild-tree, which=20 I did after ensuring of backup reliability, and the error was corrected=20 (after eventually losing a few files i fortunately had in the backups). >> >> Also, which kernel/machine is this running on? Do you know *why* this=20 >> corruption may have occured? Any recent hardware issues? Is ther=20 >> anything in the logs regarding fs/device errors? Kernel is 2.6.19. The machine does not seem to have any HW issue, nothing strange in the=20 logs..... :$ This is just a plain Dell 2650 server with a bunch of SCSI HDD, software=20 raid5 array, reiserfs on top of it. Laurent