Re: Reiserfsck dies

From: Markus Müller
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 13:48:15 EST


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

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