From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Jeff.McWilliams@acetechnologies.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs - problems mounting after power outage
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:56:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <816580000.981590200@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010207173143.7AC5E1805F@mail.acetechnologies.net>
On Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:31:43 PM -0500 Jeff McWilliams <Jeff.McWilliams@acetechnologies.net> wrote:
> I'm having difficulty mounting a reiserfs partition after a power outage.
>
> This is 2.4.0-test9 compiled with reiserfs as a module, and
Which reiserfs version is this? Upgrading to the reiserfs included in 2.4.1 would be a good plan, there have been a few bug fixes since test9 times (none specfically related to this).
> the ide.2.4.0-t9-6.task.0923.path IDE patch - mostly to get updated support for
> the 3WARE IDE RAID controller.
>
If this raid controller has writeback cache, make sure you either have a battery backup for the cache, or have writeback turned off.
> /dev/sda is the 3ware escalade raid mirror - two Maxtor 20 gig drives.
>
> reiserfs is compiled as a module, the distribution is Debian Linux
> "Potato"
>
[ ... ]
> The partition I'm having trouble with is /dev/sda7. /dev/sda6 recovered okay.
> /dev/sda7 doesn't have a lot of data on it, and I CAN deal with the lost data,
> but it doesn't leave me with a very good feeling of confidence in reiserfs
> if I can't successfully recover from a power failure.
>
>
> What happens when I type mount /dev/sda7 is this:
>
> reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format
> reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:07) ...
>
> and then it hangs. I then have to hit the reset button to reboot.
>
How hung is it? Does the whole system stop, or does this mount just block forever?
> I've tried running reiserfsck with --check, --correct-bitmap,
> --rebuild-sb, and --rebuild-tree. NO luck there.
>
These programs also hang? Does reiserfsck (which version BTW) give any output at all?
-chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-07 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-07 17:31 reiserfs - problems mounting after power outage Jeff McWilliams
2001-02-07 23:56 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2001-02-08 2:32 ` Jeff McWilliams
2001-02-08 2:39 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-08 2:53 ` Jeff McWilliams
2001-02-08 4:09 ` reiserfs - problems mounting after power outage (FIXED) Jeff McWilliams
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