Hi, you say the problem is very large files - how large? Reiser along
with most filesystems on 32 bit machines is limited to approximately
2gbytes per file. If they are trying to drop file files larger than
2gbytes onto the disk, you may need to take other measures ranging from
user education, quotas or an alternative file system - upgrading
existing modules probably wont help much. I have never tried to go over
the limit though I regularly use audio files approaching 2 Gbytes, so
what does happen to a Reiser FS when the limit is exceeded?
BillK
Lieven Van Acker wrote:
>
> Allright,
>
> I traced the problem down - rather a lucky coincidence - to the fact that
> listing a certain directory's content causes the crash!
>
> Subdirectories of this certain directory are accessible. So the problem
> lies in the Reiserfs filesystem modules.
>
> I consulted the users and it seems they were trying to put very large files
> on the server. They are not sure of this is the case for the problem dir.
>
> So, for now, we know what causes the problem, and the next thing I will try
> is manually upgrade the kernel and reiserfs modules / utils to see if I can
> recover from the problem/avoid similar problems in the future.
>
