From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263290AbVFYCw3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:52:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263300AbVFYCw3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:52:29 -0400 Received: from 69-18-3-179.lisco.net ([69.18.3.179]:63506 "EHLO ninja.slaphack.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263290AbVFYCwT (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:52:19 -0400 Message-ID: <42BCC6DE.4020909@slaphack.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:52:14 -0500 From: David Masover User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050325) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Galibert Cc: Alan Cox , Horst von Brand , Hans Reiser , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins References: <200506231924.j5NJOvLA031008@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <42BB31E9.50805@slaphack.com> <1119570225.18655.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42BB7B32.4010100@slaphack.com> <20050624124943.GA75817@dspnet.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20050624124943.GA75817@dspnet.fr.eu.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:17:06PM -0500, David Masover wrote: > >>I was able to recover from bad blocks, though of course no Reiser that I >>know of has had bad block relocation built in... But I got all my files >>off of it, fortunately. > > > My experience shows that you've been very, very lucky. I hope r4 is > better in that regard. I was on Reiser4. And as Hans is loudly protesting, v3 seems to be stable now, including being somewhat resilient to disk breakage. But I do better backups now. > If you want to try with r3, take a well-used partition[1] and copy it > at block level to another partition or a file. Then zero some random > spans of blocks in the copy and reiserfsck --rebuild-tree it. My > experience is that you'll usually get the files names and directory > tree but their contents will have been scattered all over the place. Sometime I'll try that. I do remember mounting read-only *before* I tried the --rebuild-tree, because I didn't want to give it a chance to screw up more that it already was. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQrzG3XgHNmZLgCUhAQKayQ//Z4R/1lKkjaiHfIrIpVXmLrGfcGUuVXLG FeQb+50orlA6pfaHDJ5JkJKKyHnTsnNSvn+VHdxqvz25/ijWDoewe368syXSggOA JkSUSvdQlcKn+dnpT8tPFY8OU3Ve87zb53fAI9J145DRLpXXmWjW5/R1OUzlPnmr +nn2n32UvbSyUj8VAM9ECtJ3+HaxXKm0ASbQLKgLoLmJ5bO/u2xml7rGtB1kdaCr xJIxugAaWnA/sytoK2vIsdnH4QFQqbuqW4bdHa3ziORS1w/DQ08PMFtxu/3ChKVQ 5d0cGtMsZkVIz+k4zE+3RD2QXZVLRvZCTwPqQciitvXCRqz3d9Wc73D+fC8FwLKx t7aARQKprPDA/bgg4SPAoJSVxZMTJDATuJ5f6XrpDB/FVUmHYQfqNLhOD/Vl5IAA 9aZCPjDXMknClydasw/SiRu3DUiOIKYlXXUN1Tnsx4l9lbVJpca25TBem+0Val2P IsruPiJ8L3XztRNwQJOY4RGH1CMobPnwEA4F9PFKqVF+wwJS5sNNqbkoD7XMrOT6 UYn3KC0DixgVCkl75nP6ORs8F9LjIuDtFd/+KNQC+AlcU5MX+BeaJD1QhT5G/1qd GjRcQaN+95jVxLVjkqnb552dQ7+CMt/DzszFDtfKlJepobflVMtX1hoZ0phudAgR PqjDS3tIROk= =lkfJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----