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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Jeff.McWilliams@acetechnologies.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reiserfs - problems mounting after power outage
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:56:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <816580000.981590200@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010207173143.7AC5E1805F@mail.acetechnologies.net>



On Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:31:43 PM -0500 Jeff McWilliams <Jeff.McWilliams@acetechnologies.net> wrote:

> I'm having difficulty mounting a reiserfs partition after a power outage.
> 
> This is 2.4.0-test9 compiled with reiserfs as a module, and 

Which reiserfs version is this?  Upgrading to the reiserfs included in 2.4.1 would be a good plan, there have been a few bug fixes since test9 times (none specfically related to this).

> the ide.2.4.0-t9-6.task.0923.path IDE patch - mostly to get updated support for
> the 3WARE IDE RAID controller.  
> 

If this raid controller has writeback cache, make sure you either have a battery backup for the cache, or have writeback turned off.

> /dev/sda is the 3ware escalade raid mirror - two Maxtor 20 gig drives.
> 
> reiserfs is compiled as a module, the distribution is Debian Linux 
> "Potato"
> 
[ ... ]

> The partition I'm having trouble with is /dev/sda7.  /dev/sda6 recovered okay.
> /dev/sda7 doesn't have a lot of data on it, and I CAN deal with the lost data,
> but it doesn't leave me with a very good feeling of confidence in reiserfs
> if I can't successfully recover from a power failure.
> 
> 
> What happens when I type mount /dev/sda7 is this:
> 
> reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format
> reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:07) ...
> 
> and then it hangs.  I then have to hit the reset button to reboot.
> 

How hung is it?  Does the whole system stop, or does this mount just block forever?

> I've tried running reiserfsck with --check, --correct-bitmap, 
> --rebuild-sb, and --rebuild-tree.  NO luck there.
> 

These programs also hang?  Does reiserfsck (which version BTW) give any output at all?

-chris


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-07 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-07 17:31 reiserfs - problems mounting after power outage Jeff McWilliams
2001-02-07 23:56 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2001-02-08  2:32   ` Jeff McWilliams
2001-02-08  2:39     ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-08  2:53       ` Jeff McWilliams
2001-02-08  4:09       ` reiserfs - problems mounting after power outage (FIXED) Jeff McWilliams

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