Re: ReiserFS causing kernel panic?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Mark Williams (MWP) wrote:

>>On Oct-12 2003, Sun, 23:30 +0930
>>Mark Williams (MWP) <mwp@internode.on.net> wrote:
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>>>>"Mark Williams (MWP)" <mwp@internode.on.net> writes:
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>>>>>I am having rather ugly problems with this card using the PDC20269 chip.
>>>>>Almost as soon as either of the HDDs on the controller are used, the
>>>>>kernel hangs solid with a dump of debugging info.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>That dump could be useful.  Also full output of dmesg and "lspci -vv"
>>>>can be helpful.
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>>>>
>>>Ok, seems this is not a controller fault, but really a problem with
>>>ReiserFS (!!).
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>>>
>>Do you really expect reiserfs code (or any other fs code for that matter)
>>not to choke on a corrupted filesystem?
>>
>>Put the disk on a trusted controller and fsck.
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>No, i wouldnt expect reiserfs to handle the data on the FS, but i also
>wouldnt have expected it to cause a kernel panic and hang the system.
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I'll be happy to accept a patch changing it to remount the fs ro instead 
of panicking.

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Hans