Re: reiserfs/md1/failure/threads
A few other solutions I had with reiser
Was seeing consistent sleepycat database corruption together with the type of log messages you described on MD softraids about 6 months ago
I ended up dumping the reiser for xfs and upgrading the kernel from 2.6.8 to 2.6.12
For reasons of performance/stability/realiability, some of these systems needed 3ware raid controllers which required kernel upgrades to 2.6.16
I would have liked to have stayed with reiser, but it just didn't seem to behave well in the Debian amd64 OS
Today I have over 100 happy Debian amd64 servers running 2.6.12/16 with xfs on soft and hard raid configurations
Peter
Peter Yorke
Sr. Linux Server Engineer
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jo Shields <jo.shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: Francesco Pietra <frapietra@alice.it>; debian-amd64@lists.debian.org <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>; mpqc-users@lists.sourceforge.net <mpqc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tue Jul 18 05:37:20 2006
Subject: Re: reiserfs/md1/failure/threads
Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:01:31PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
>
>> Mickael Marchand wrote:
>>
>>> check your memory (yes it's going to be long, but that's almost always
>>> the reason of reiserfs failures)
>>> I am stressing hard reiserfs on various amd64/em64t boxes, no pbl so
>>> far.
>>> every box I found corrupting filesystems were having :
>>> 1 - bad hard drives that a low scan confirmed
>>> or 2 - bad memory that a real long memtest could detect
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mik
>>>
>>>
>> I'll add to this - I've seen corruption with all filesystems on my
>> office desktop (which has screwed memory, but they refuse to fix it).
>> EXT3 gave up on journalling & just started writing junk, costing me my
>> /home.
>>
>
> Ext2/ext3 complains about errors, but you normally don't see that
> because it's hidden in the system log files. It's a good thing to mount
> partitions with the "errors=remount-ro" option. If anything goes wrong,
> the kernel will mount the partition read-only. Reboot+fsck will save
> your data.
>
>
>> Reiser is lasting up better, but reiserfsck segfaults when it
>> sees /home
>>
>
> That means that the filesystem has errors. Reiserfsck is able to detect
> them, but because nobody has seen those errors before it will segfault
> on them. That also means that the reiserfs filesystem driver in the
> kernel will happily screw the filesystem further up without notice.
> Back up your data *NOW* before it's too late.
>
Meh. I stopped using my desktop for real work a while back, since it
locks up under load. If I ask nicely, they take my machine away for a
week, sit on it, then give it back to me.
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