[ bringing this also on reiserfs ml, a great place for this kind of posts. this is also the reason of the full quoting. sorry ]
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:51:53AM +0200, Paul Wagland wrote: > Hi all, hi Paul, > I would like to report on a problem that I am having. I am just testing > out the new megaraid unified driver, and have been doing some baseline > testing with bonnie++. > > My problem is that, although reiserfs, ext2, jfs and xfs all work, > reiser4 fails with the following error: > --- > Can't write block. > Bonnie: drastic I/O error (write(2)): No such file or directory > --- > > I am using the debian prepared kernel with the debian reiser4 patch. I > made a cursory examination of the patch, and it appears to correlate > fairly closely with the patch from the namesys site. of course it is correlated to that of namesys! i have no skills at all to invent reiser4 :)) you forgot to specify version of the patch you are talking about, currently debian provides two versions. anyway i suppose you are talking about version 20040326-2, aren't you? > Given that this works with reiserfs, ext2, jfs and xfs it would appear > to be a reiser4 problem, however ext3 also fails, though with a > different error, it claims that the disk is full, but it is trying to > write a 2 1GB files onto a 2.5GB filesystem, so it should have enough > room, and indeed it did even work two or three times out of about 10 > runs (lots of timing :-). This implies that it might be a megaraid > problem. As you can tell, I really have no idea ;-) > > I will try playing around tonight with an official kernel and the > official reiser4 patch to see if that makes any difference, but would > just like to raise this potential problem sooner rather than later. latest reiser4 snapshot provided a patch which applied cleanly on 2.6.5-rc2 but not to 2.6.5. i had to modify it as suggested on the reiserfs ml. if you look at the debian package's changelog you can find the reference to that thread. > If I can help debug this situation (I am probably the only person > trying this combination :-) please let me know how I should go about > it. i'm sorry but i can't help further. cheers domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50
