Re: file corruption in 2.4.16/17

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Christian Ohm wrote:

>hi.
>
>i've recently bought a new 80gb ide drive, and am now getting corrupted
>files on it. i've made three partitions for linux on it, a small ext2 one as
>root, and two larger ones with reiserfs as /usr and /var. the problem is
>that now some files get randomly corrupted; they are the right size, but
>contain some random garbage (searching the archive for this list just came
>up with some issues around july / kernel 2.4.6), which makes the system
>pretty much unusable.
>
>my old setup with a 20gb ide drive and a 4.5gb scsi drive worked flawlessly
>for at least a year with reiserfs, so this seems to be a problem with
>reiserfs and large drives (i haven't found a corrupted file on the ext2
>partition (yet)). my hardware is: a nmc (now enmic) 8tax+ mainboard with via
>kt133 chipset (newest bios), a maxtor d540x-4k 80gb harddrive and a quantum
>lct15 20gb harddrive. i used kernel 2.4.16 with the preemtion patch, but
>2.4.17 seems to have the same problem.
>
>windows had a problem with the maxtor drive, too. i made a fat32 partition
>and copied the files from the old drive under linux. worked perfectly, but
>when reading the partition with windows, it showed a corrupted file system.
>i had to install a special ide driver not included in the via 4in1 drivers
>to read it correctly, but now it works without problems.
>
>i'd be happy if there's a solution for this, as, like i said, the system now
>is pretty much unusable.
>
>bye
>christian ohm
>
>ps.: i'm not subscribed to this list, so please cc me on any replies to this
>thread. thanks.
>-
>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/
>
>
ReiserFS does not have a problem with large hard drives.  If you crash 
while writing a file, you can damage it.  Not sure if that is your 
problem, but maybe.


Hans