From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:05:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:05:08 -0400 Received: from idiom.com ([216.240.32.1]:64526 "EHLO idiom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 13:04:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3B16780F.D5FF04D8@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:57:51 -0700 From: Hans Reiser Organization: Namesys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrej Borsenkow CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NULL characters in file on ReiserFS again. In-Reply-To: <000201c0e9c5$7643d540$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > This happened to me yesterday on kernel-2.4.4-6mdk (Mandrake cooker, based > on 2.4.4-ac14), single reiser root filesystem, mounted with default options. > Hardware - ASUS CUSL2 (i815e chipset), Fujitsu UDMA-4 drive. > > I tried to change hostname and did not have the corresponding entry in > /etc/hosts (or anywhere). As a tesult, startx hung starting X server; it was > not possible to switch to alpha console or kill X server. I pressed reset > and after reboot looked into /var/log/XFree86*log - and there were a bunch > of ^@ there. > > I then run fsck from another system (installed on another partition) but > there was no errors (well, new errors - there was off-by-one free blocks > bitmap mismatch but it was always there, I do not know how to correct it). I > tried the above once more but this time XFree log was O.K. > > So, I really do not know how to reproduce it, but I wanted to give a warning > that a problem still exists (albeit in emergency situation). As Reiser does > not do any fsck after crash, the problem is serious enough IMHO. > > -andrej > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ this is the nature of metadata journaling filesystems.