Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

Xuan Baldauf
2001-02-07T22:07:28Z

Chris Mason wrote:

> On Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:47:29 AM +1300 Chris Wedgwood
> <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
>
> > these appear on your system every couple of days right? if so... are
> > you able to run with the fs mount notails for a couple of days and
> > see if you still experience these?
> >
> > my guess is you probably still will as most log files aren't
> > candidates for tail-packing (too large) but it will help eliminate
> > one more thing....
> >
>
> Yes, it really would.
>
> 1) mount -o notail
> 2) rm old_logfile
> 3) restart syslog
>
> This will ensure the log files don't have tails at all. Knowing for sure
> the bug doesn't involve tails would remove much code from the search.
>
> -chris

Mhhh. It's a busy server from which I am about 700km away. I don't like to
restart it now. (Especially because it cannot boot from hard disk, only from
floppy disk, due to bios problems). But I'd be happy if following is true:

(1) Enabling "-o notails" is possible at runtime, i.e. "mount / -o
remount,notails" works and
(2) Notails is compatible with all the tails found on disk (so notails only
changes the way the disk is written, not the way the disk is read).

Is this true?

Xuân.