Hi, I have a very strange problem. I was using Mandrake 7.1 with a self-made "vanilla" 2.2.18 kernel and the Reiser FS patch 3.5.31. Almost all my filesystems are Reiserfs. After upgrading to Mandrake 8 again with a "vanilla" 2.4.5 kernel (reiserfs 3.6.25), I noticed that some of the files in the 3.5.31 formatted partitions seemed to be missing. I still have my 7.1 system, and if I boot the old kernel, the files are still there. With 2.4.5, though, they are invisible. The invisible files I've found so far all belong to package I installed some time ago. It was an upgrade to an existing package. For example, I have a situation like this: [ kernel 2.2 ] $ ls file-6.0.1 file-6.0.3 (file-6.0.3 is the update). [kernel 2.4] $ ls file-6.0.1 file-6.0.3 is simply not there !? I have recompiled my 2.4.5 kernel with Reiserfs internal checks, but no error messages are displayed. The situation with the hidden files remains. The situation is independent of whether I use Mandrake 8's gcc-2.96 or the egcs compiler coming as "kgcc". Here is the output of Reiserfs starting up on the partition in question: ReiserFS version 3.6.25 reiserfs:warning: CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is set ON reiserfs:warning: - it is slow mode for debugging. reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:08) ... journal-1153: found in header: first_unflushed_offset 4706, last_flushed_trans_id 38538 journal-1206: Starting replay from offset 4706, trans_id 38538 journal-1299: Setting newest_mount_id to 220 Using tea hash to sort names reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format Any ideas what this is due to? How can I debug it ? Regards, Martin -- Martin Wilck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Inst. for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04303 Leipzig, Germany
