reiserfs+lndir problem [was: 2.4.4 SMP: spurious EOVERFLOW "Value too large for defined data type"]

[Daniel Elstner <daniel.elstner@gmx.net>]

Hi all,

unfortunately I have to correct me again.
The problem seems unrelated to the kernel version or SMP/UP
(though only 2.4.[34] tried yet).

Apparently it's a reiserfs/symlink problem.
I tried doing the lndir on an ext2 partition, sources still
on reiserfs. And it worked just fine!

Sorry for the rather large amount of noise, I hope it's
finally correct now :)

-- Daniel

> the problem occurs only after setting up a parallel build tree with
> lndir, removing the whole symlink tree, and running lndir again.
> Maybe an reiserfs bug?
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
> > With kernel 2.4.4 SMP, I get some spurios errors from several
> > user-space programs. Unfortunately it's hard to reproduce, I had most
> > luck with the XFree86-4.0.3 build. When doing `make World', soon cpp0
> > (called by imake) dies with the following error message:
> > 
> > cpp0: : Value too large for defined data type
> > 
> > The message seems to correspond to EOVERFLOW in gcc's libiberty.
> > When calling imake directly, it fails 1 out of 10-20 times.
> > I couldn't reproduce this with calling cpp directly.
> > 
> > I also got a lot of that messages once at shutdown,
> > as init was trying to umount /proc.
> > 
> > The error occurs neither with 2.4.3 SMP nor with 2.4.4 UP.
> > (I'm using reiserfs, too.)
> > 
> > ABIT VP6
> > dual P3 866
> > gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (prerelease)
> > binutils 2.11
> > glibc 2.2.3
> > 
> > Could you please give me further advice how to track this down?