Re: ReiserFS causing kernel panic?

[Hans Reiser]

Mark Williams (MWP) wrote:

> > On Oct-12 2003, Sun, 23:30 +0930
> > Mark Williams (MWP) <mwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > "Mark Williams (MWP)" <mwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > >        
> > > Ok, seems this is not a controller fault, but really a problem with
> > > ReiserFS (!!).
> > >      
> > 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.
> >    
>
> 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


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