On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:37:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 03:54:59PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > I see from your bug report that this is a reiserfs filesystem. I've been > told that reiserfs is not considered stable on alpha; it has actually been > disabled in the sarge installer for this architecture over corruption > concerns. This may or may not be related, but I figured it was worth > pointing out.
Hmm. I've been running it for a year or two, 24/7, with no real problems. I've heard that JFS is not workable on Alpha. What modern FSs actually work? > The other factor at work here is probably that df is using the statfs() > function from glibc, whereas exim4 is using statfs64() due to the CFLAGS > settings -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE. We may be looking at a > broken implementation of the statfs64() libc call on alpha, or a broken > statfs64() syscall (either when pointing at reiserfs, or in general). You might look at the strace info in the bug report -- the statfs syscall returned the correct info, so I think we can rule out the kernel here. -- John
