From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Sam Thompson <samuelt@cervantes.dabney.caltech.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>,
"Vladimir V. Saveliev" <monstr@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:42:25 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B555A01.39A0CD5B@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010717211401.A322@caltech.edu>
That you had problems on both filesystems makes me suspect the hard drive. May I suggest you run
the badblocks program and see if it finds any?
My other developers may have other suggestions.
Hans
Sam Thompson wrote:
>
> First, please CC all replies to samuelt@caltech.edu, as I am not on the mailing list.
>
> The other day a computer of mine lost power and the ext2 fs was severely damaged
> . I decided to reinstall debian using reiserfs to prevent this. I had no problems with installation, (I've done this same install on other computers) but as I started to untar backup tarballs I had made, I started noticing problems with what I believe is the filesystem.
>
> Tar/gzip will complain about crc errors in files: for example in a certain 40 mb file I can decompress fine on other computers. If I try to uncompress the same file immediately, it will fail at a different point, seemingly at random. Sometimes it works fine. Random debian packages I apt-get have the same problem. Sometimes they won't unpack properly, sometimes they will.
>
> I tried reinstall gzip several times, but I don't think the problems are limited to compressed files, just very obvious in critical situations like that.
>
> I can get complex software to run: xfree86 4.1, mozilla, etc, fine, although som
> e files apparently go missing in some programs.
>
> Just now I got the following error message when deleting a tarball:
>
> vs-4080: reiserfs_free_block: free_block (0301:672040)[dev:blocknr]: bit already
> cleared
>
> Next, I took the hard drive to my other, stable computer and ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on it, under the hopes that this would fix it. It did appear to fix it, but about 10 minutes later the symptoms came back.
>
> Here is 'debugreiserfs /dev/hda1' output:
>
> Super block of format 3.5 found on the 0x3 in block 16
> Block count 4233112
> Blocksize 4096
> Free blocks 3900694
> Busy blocks (skipped 16, bitmaps - 130, journal blocks - 8193
> 1 super blocks, 324078 data blocks
> Root block 8529
> Journal block (first) 18
> Journal dev 0
> Journal orig size 8192
> Filesystem state ERROR
> Tree height 4
> Hash function used to sort names: "tea"
> Objectid map size 62, max 1004
> Version 0
>
> Here is my relevant hardware:
>
> Motherboard: Asus A7V KT133 with 686A southbridge (NOT the 686B).
> Harddrive: 30 gig ide maxtor/generic.
>
> I installed 2.4.6 to try and fix the problem, it didn't seem to help, although I do not clearly remember the difference between 2.2.17-patched and 2.4.6 in terms of the symptoms.
>
> I tried reinstalling once, but that did not help.
>
> I'm at a loss as to how to proceed. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Sam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-18 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 140+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-18 4:14 ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Sam Thompson
2001-07-18 5:18 ` Steve Kieu
2001-07-18 16:22 ` Erik Mouw
2001-07-19 2:02 ` Steve Kieu
2001-07-19 13:28 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-19 15:50 ` Erik Mouw
2001-07-27 12:52 ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 12:55 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 13:24 ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 14:18 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2001-07-27 14:55 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-27 16:06 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-07-27 22:02 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-07-28 13:45 ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-28 16:15 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-28 16:45 ` Marcus Meissner
2001-07-28 16:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-29 10:19 ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-29 11:04 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-30 10:08 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 19:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-30 20:30 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 20:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-30 21:05 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 21:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-30 21:44 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 21:48 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 21:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-30 21:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-31 7:45 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-07-31 9:55 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 10:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-07-31 10:24 ` Anders Eriksson
2001-07-31 10:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-31 17:01 ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-07-30 21:59 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 22:34 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 11:34 ` David Weinehall
2001-07-31 12:22 ` ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption (patch to cause redhat to unmount reiserfs on halt included) Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 12:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-31 13:12 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 22:41 ` ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Kip Macy
2001-07-30 22:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-30 21:13 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 21:21 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 21:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-31 2:34 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-30 22:04 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 22:36 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-30 22:53 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 23:12 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 10:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-31 10:59 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 11:42 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-31 13:41 ` Chris Mason
2001-07-31 15:15 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-31 15:58 ` Chris Mason
2001-07-31 15:22 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-31 15:49 ` Chris Mason
2001-07-31 22:08 ` Jussi Laako
2001-07-31 22:32 ` Dan Hollis
2001-07-31 23:45 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 22:19 ` CRC loop method (was Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption) Pavel Machek
2001-08-01 16:23 ` ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Andreas Dilger
2001-08-02 13:44 ` Pavel Machek
2001-07-27 15:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-27 15:33 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 16:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-27 16:49 ` Early Flush Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:07 ` ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-27 16:39 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-27 16:57 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 17:28 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-27 17:45 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 17:10 ` Steve Lord
2001-07-27 14:48 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:04 ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 15:38 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 17:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-27 18:47 ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 19:22 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-28 6:19 ` bvermeul
2001-07-28 7:39 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 19:30 ` Jussi Laako
2001-07-28 6:21 ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 21:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-27 20:49 ` Lehmann
2001-07-28 14:13 ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-28 14:40 ` bvermeul
2001-07-18 9:42 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
[not found] ` <3B5579E7.5090107@namesys.com>
2001-07-18 16:26 ` Sam Thompson
2001-07-18 16:34 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-18 13:09 ` Andre Pang
[not found] <no.id>
2001-07-27 13:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 13:38 ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 13:39 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 13:47 ` bvermeul
2001-07-27 13:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-28 14:16 ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-08-08 18:42 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-27 14:16 ` Philip R. Auld
2001-07-27 14:38 ` Jordan
2001-07-27 14:51 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:12 ` Philip R. Auld
2001-07-27 14:23 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 14:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-28 14:18 ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-28 16:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-29 10:15 ` Matthew Gardiner
2001-07-29 11:10 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-29 14:28 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-07-29 11:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-27 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 15:26 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2001-07-27 15:46 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 17:46 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-07-27 18:02 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 18:10 ` Dustin Byford
2001-07-27 19:20 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-28 16:10 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-07-27 15:31 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 16:25 ` Kip Macy
2001-07-27 17:29 ` Ville Herva
2001-07-27 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 17:43 ` Ville Herva
2001-07-27 20:46 ` Lehmann
2001-07-27 21:13 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 15:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 16:41 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 16:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 21:47 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-27 22:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-28 7:36 ` Hans Reiser
2001-07-28 14:08 ` Chris Mason
2001-07-27 15:13 Cress, Andrew R
2001-07-30 15:24 Chris Mason
2001-07-30 15:47 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-30 16:04 ` Chris Mason
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