Re: File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

[David Jarvie <lists@astrojar.org.uk>]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:29, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 1:01, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +0000, David Jarvie wrote:
> I've got
> >> off lightly - it has made some systems completely unusable. It's a bug
> >> in the
> >> reiserfs kernel module in linux-image-2.6.15-1, kernel version 2.6.15-4.
> The way to
> >> fix it is to add the 'noattrs' option to all reiserfs partitions
> in /etc/fstab. Then
> >> do a 'reiserfsck --clean-attributes' on all partitions, and remount.
> >
> >Are you supposed to leave the noattrs option on forever, or ply during
> >the --clean-attributes?  And are the above instructions what you have to
> >do to prevent the problem, or cure it?
>
> 'reiserfsck --clean-attributes' is to cure the problem if you are already
> using a kernel 2.6.15 with the bug. To prevent the problem occurring on a
> clean system, simply add 'noattrs' to /etc/fstab reiserfs entries before
> booting up a faulty kernel. This needs to be done if you upgrade to the
> buggy kernel, or if you have run 'reiserfsck --clean-attributes' to clean
> up. Once the kernel bug is fixed, the 'noattrs' option won't be necessary
> any more.
>
> See the above-mentioned bug report for full details.

Well, that was the theory. The bug has now reappeared on my system even after 
carrying out the instructions above. The only solution left for now is to go 
back to kernel 2.6.12, I think.

-- 
David Jarvie.