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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Arnaud Installe <a.installe@ieee.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs probs on 2.2.17
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:53:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1940350000.982716781@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010221014410.A2559@bach.iverlek.kotnet.org>



On Wednesday, February 21, 2001 01:44:10 AM +0100 Arnaud Installe
<arnaud@bach.kotnet.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've had a problem with a reiserfs partition on a 2.2.17 kernel the other
> day.  Everything I did on it just waited forever.  (Since shutdown tries
> to umount all partitions the only way to reboot the machine was to kill
> the watchdog process.)
> 
> The problem persisted after the reboot, so the partition must've contained
> errors.  Running `reiserfsck --replay-by-journal' fixed the problem.  (I
> think: before that I also ran `reiserfsck --check 'on it.)
> 


Which reiserfs version are you running?  From the ps output, it looks like
you've got a bunch of processes waiting on the log, and one process waiting
on a semaphore, so everyone is probably waiting for that process to close
the transaction.  These kinds of deadlocks should have been long since
fixed, so there is probably a larger problem.

Running reiserfsck --replay-journal will replay the journal.  This happens
on every mount, so I'm really not sure how it could have fixed things ;-)
The --check option is readonly, and if there was a metadata problem it
probably would have reported it.

-chris


      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-21  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-21  0:44 reiserfs probs on 2.2.17 Arnaud Installe
2001-02-21  0:53 ` Chris Mason [this message]

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