Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem

From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: green@namesys.com, mason@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:21:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030710132141.65a8f770.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55L.0307091408340.26373@freak.distro.conectiva>

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:18:37 -0300 (BRT)
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

> > PS to Marcelo:
> > There is a problem with 2.4.22-pre3. I cannot mount a reiserfs
> > data-partition with 320 GB size located on a 3ware RAID. It just hangs the
> > box, during init or any runlevel I tried. It is completely reproducable,
> > but debugreiserfs on the partition and reiserfsck both show no problems at
> > all ... The things mounts flawlessly under 2.4.22-pre2 and below.
> 
> There are no 3ware changes in pre3. So it must be reiserfs or something
> else. Lets try reverting the reiserfs patches to see if they are the
> cause?
> 
> Attached are files rei1, rei2, and rei3 (all gzip compressed).

I reverted all three patches and the problem stays just the same. I guess this
makes it a lot likely that the problem lies elsewhere.

If you want me to try others, just send them to me like these three.

Thanks for your support
Stephan