Bug#613925: [linux-2.6] Reiserfs hung with data loss with 2.6.36/2.6.37 regresse from 2.6.33

[roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien+debian@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 11:30 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> Package: linux-2.6
>> Severity: grave
>> tags: upstream
>> forwarded: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/16/249
>>
>> i suffer since three month of severe crash with data loss (reiserfschk
>> --rebuild-tree is often needed and moreover twice I need to
>> restore from backup).
>
> This is quite possibly a hardware problem.  In any case, I would suggest
> you switch to ext4 as reiserfsck is known to be very unreliable.

I do not think so. It seems to be related to the transition from big
kernel lock to finer lock.

I work fine with previous kernel but in this case I have some problems
with my network card.

And it is not an option to immediatly move to ext4

Bastien

> Ben.
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> Ben Hutchings
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