Hello On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:58 -0600, John Cohorn wrote: > First off, thank you for taking the time to respond. > > Basically any heavy activity on the partition seems to trigger it. > Here's a short transcript: > > dually ~ # cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.6.16-rc2-mm1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.6 > (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #7 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 16 > 21:19:53 Local time zone must be set-- > dually ~ # mkfs.reiser4 --version > mkfs.reiser4 1.0.5 > Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Hans Reiser, licensing > governed by > reiser4progs/COPYING. > dually ~ # mkfs.reiser4 /dev/sdb1 --yes > dually ~ # mount /dev/sdb1 /data1 > dually ~ # klogd -d -f ~/kernel.log > dually ~ # cd /data1 > dually data1 # cp -ra /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/ . > dually data1 # tar cf linux.bz2 linux-2.6.16-rc2-mm1/ > > ...after about half a minute of activity I receive the message which > I've attached as a small JPEG > "reiser4 panicked cowardly: reiser4[tar(4078)] commit_current_atom > (fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c:1130) [zam-597]:".
Would you please try your test on ide disk? > I can't see whether it was line 1130 or 1138. I'll take a quick look > myself, but I'm completely unfamiliar with reiser4 sources and the > kernel sources in general. > > After this my system is completely locked up. When I mount the > partition after restarting it no longer contains any files. I have few > or no problems when creating, mounting, and working on reiser4 > partitions when booted from the System recovery liveCD so it must be > something in the latest sources or in my kernel configuration IIRC, there were changes (not in reiser4) which caused kernel to notice i/o errors on SCSI devices where older kernels did not see any problems. > (which is 100% stable for everything else under reiser3, but I haven't > bothered to perfect yet). > > Apologies about the JPEG, I could not figure out how to get the kernel > output logged into a file(maybe it freezes before the file can flush > to disk, i dunno). If you know of a way, I welcome instruction. > reiserfs-list@namesys.com does not accept binary attachments. Please send the image to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should setup either serial or netconsole to catch kernel output. Please look at instructions: linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt linux/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
