From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 18:42:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 18:42:07 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([194.221.183.20]:16669 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 18:41:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 00:41:52 +0200 From: Daniel Elstner To: Chris Mason Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiserfs+lndir problem [was: 2.4.4 SMP: spurious EOVERFLOW "Value too large for defined data type"] Message-Id: <20010502004152.23a0751b.daniel@master.daniel.homenet> In-Reply-To: <1026200000.988679027@tiny> In-Reply-To: <20010430225557.3f28d1b0.daniel@master.daniel.homenet> <1026200000.988679027@tiny> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.64 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:03:47 -0400 Chris Mason wrote: > > 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! > > Neat, thanks for the extra details. Does that mean you can consistently > repeat on reiserfs now? What happens when you do the lndir on reiserfs and > diff the directories? I just played around a bit with the following results: sources on reiserfs, lndir on reiserfs -> make fails, diff ok sources on reiserfs, lndir on ext2 -> make ok sources on ext2, lndir on reiserfs -> make fails, diff ok Doing the diff against a second copy of the tree shows no errors, too. Always the same behaviour: You have to run lndir at least twice to get the error. If the link tree was already set up after a boot, the error occurs only after rm + lndir + rm + lndir. There's a strange way to get things working just like after a reboot. After diff'ing the link tree with the 2nd copy (both on reiserfs), make World won't fail - at least once. I also tried in the link tree: find ! -type d -exec cat '{}' \; >/dev/null And it seems to have the same effect as the diff. > Any useful messages in /var/log/messages? Nope, not any single message (except the usual ones). The error on shutdown (when umounting /proc) appeared once again, with the the same error message. Though I have no clue how that could be related to reiserfs. Two missed details: the reiserfs partion exists on a software raid0 device. I configured glibc-2.2.3 with --enable-kernel=2.4.1. Shall I try moving back to glibc-2.2.2 / configuring for lower kernel? -- Daniel