Further to my previous comments, I made a big ext2 partition so I could copy over the whole directory. It worked fine. I have now run it several times copying to reiserfs over nfs, with the following result:
[root@fs /home]# du -sk * /usr/local/sarg/ 502484 Export 502890 Export2 502291 Export3 502878 Export4 500721 Export5 511304 /usr/local/sarg The last one is the complete copy on the ext2 partition. The first 5 are various attempts to copy it to the reiserfs partition. None of them succeed, but they copy almost all the data - only missing about 2% of the copy. Unfortunately, that isn't quite what I want in a file system! :-) After it failed to copy a few files it seems like it proceeded to copy others, and I didn't do anything special between the copies except wait a while (like 5 minutes). I just looked at the console on the file server and saw a bunch of ethernet errors, but none of them happened during the last couple of copy attempts (I ran it again just to verify) even though there were a bunch of IO errors reported by the copy, so it doesn't seem relevant, but I'm reporting them for completeness: Nov 3 21:13:21 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0xc length 0 status 00000600! Nov 3 21:13:21 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df0100c0 vs df0100c0. Nov 3 21:13:21 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0xd length 1002 status 03ea8d00! Nov 3 21:13:21 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df0100d0 vs df0100d0. Nov 3 21:40:25 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x5 length 0 status 00000600! Nov 3 21:40:25 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df010050 vs df010050. Nov 3 21:40:25 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x6 length 1002 status 03ea8d00! Nov 3 21:40:25 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df010060 vs df010060. Nov 3 22:07:13 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x0 length 0 status 00000600! Nov 3 22:07:13 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df010000 vs df010000. Nov 3 22:07:13 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x1 length 1002 status 03ea8d00! Nov 3 22:07:13 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df010010 vs df010010. Nov 3 22:11:45 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0xb length 0 status 00000600! Nov 3 22:11:45 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df0100b0 vs df0100b0. Nov 3 22:11:45 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0xc length 1002 status 03ea8d00! Nov 3 22:11:45 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df0100c0 vs df0100c0. Any help appreciated! ../Dave
