On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 17:17 -0400, Matthew G wrote:
> Would you like to tell me how you did that? As I had the same type of
> issues (resierfs), please email me though so we don't hijack this
> thread. 

In the usual case, that happens with a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, which
rebuilds the whole filesystem, scanning your filesystem for parts that
ever looked like it belonged to a reiserfs filesystem (when you rm -rf,
only the tree is adjusted, the data stays on disk, so when you rebuild
the tree you get it back)

The problem with reiserfs is that it just rebuilds your tree with
everything it finds on your disk that looks like it ever belonged to a
reiserfs system. Now try this:

- create an empty partition or image file
- create a reiserfs filesystem on it
- mount it
- create some image files with reiserfs filesystems on that
- put some data on the images, put some data on the main partition
- run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on your main test image/partition

What you'll get here is a completely messed up filesystem, because
reiserfsck will put together everything that looks like something that
belongs to your reiserfs filesystem... including the contents of your
disk images.


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