Re: Reiserfsck dies

["Markus Müller" <mm@priv.de>]

Hi Andreas Steinmetz,
> Markus Müller wrote:
>   
>> no, the hdd is a software raid 5, /dev/md0, which is piped through aes
>> via cryptsetup, so it is accessed via /dev/mapper/hdb
>>     
>
> My experience with such a stacking and reiserfs was horrible. Continous
> filesystem corruption that finally required reformatting. I then
> replaced reiserfs with ext3 and the stacking works since then.
>
> It is not a dm-crypt problem as the symptoms also occurred with
> raid5/lvm2/reiserfs, so any raidx/dm/reiserfs stacking seems to be only
> something for the more adventurous folks. Thus I don't know if the
> problem still exists with current kernels.
>   
Ok, maybe. I try now to insert 512 MB more RAM into the machine, more 
than 1 Gig I don't have for this system. I only want the raid to work 
just one time, cause there is data I want to (but not in any case) be 
secured. Then I again install ext3 on it... this worked on this raid 
without any problems at all. And the fsck is about 2 houres, not 28 
hours (--rebuild-tree).

I don't think my kernel is to old, do you?

stacker:/# uname -a
Linux stacker.websrv.de 2.6.16.9 #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 30 09:44:06 CEST 
2006 i686 GNU/Linux
stacker:/#

Regards,
Markus Mueller