Re: Reiserfsck dies

From: Andreas Steinmetz
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 13:51:54 EST


Markus Müller wrote:
> 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?

So it seems the problem still exists (lucky me had lots of backup tapes
plus firewire disk backups). I only remember that finally the fs was to
foobar for reiserfsck to recover in my case.
--
Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use robotrap@xxxxxxxx
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/