-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans Reiser wrote: > Vladimir Saveliev wrote: > >> Hello >> >> On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 16:37, Szabolcs Illes wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have found these entries in my system log: (maybe it's a reiserfs4 >>> bug) >>> >>> Mar 14 20:06:15 sunset reiser4[umount(8489)]: reiser4_handle_error >>> (fs/reiser4/vfs_ops.c:1432)[foobar-42]: >>> Mar 14 20:06:15 sunset reiser4 panicked cowardly: Filesystem error >>> occured >>> Mar 14 20:06:15 sunset >> >> >> This indicates that reiser4 were not able to write block to a disk. It >> is very likely that disk has problems. >> >> As you have fsck.reiser4-ed it succesfully - store data on better hard >> drive and start thinking about not using this device for reiser4, >> because such erorrs may come up again. >> >> > Please send me a proposal for how you can change our error messages so > that everything you advised in this email would already have been > advised by the error messages.
Easy. Point them to a web page. Especially if this kind of error is usually caused by hardware. On said web page, you want to point them to the "badblocks" utility for finding if it's the disk's fault, and the "dm-bbr" patches, for if they want to run Reiser4 on top of such a bad disk. Or, if you want something short: "Disk is dying? Check hardware..." Is this usually caused by hardware? Because I also usually find other entries in the system log related to hardware -- things about dma timeouts and uncorrectable errors and the like. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQmeuQngHNmZLgCUhAQIS7g/9GYiPSklf+RpV4EJRK8JvpBdBaKYPJ1bO lJfbvb0pVppikwwlY6a5NVmqACaeVXDP42+WCUPeL+9PX7EL5tgRGNO5RWW4g67Y beiZbKtk5sbNsA7Acyxan4x+hkADB57M4ODL+HKx9wGg9d3DH53pFjR+G8lDBC24 4mxg8T6NCECpyV4IlDSNzVL0VdFkvaf/AiyXf3YGB9B43j4XxbjZVwJNTNqBp8w+ qxINNc8qpBN1kcrq2ZQc0/1yX3M9nBbOHafNRrHD2K8mmRx6CwOgGaqFOBWQJ+H0 JGqcgwq9kf/vXUGx8AN8g8NafGoE9H8aZ2SWKAfcklrcJeAoHS+pjlQ7ITF24O8g 4Ie9tBDzg2EyaYc814ftwjM9sov0rqNf/nZCd5HHPP3FmMhol/u2ZZw7tx7bXkV2 McN1OuI7+IrkTu4wFEuCI/lHSpeBCpMrCPmotiiubYQ69dpm5C/jbbgY/RgnFo/9 MNwsrcoZMpoWS9Q3cefFDrBN+IkwxjrI33z9HJFUY09rGGSMDXSkBJOGqYfplx9k StpfxtsNb8v8UAf6mg8DYUExpsmjFbQdrELCAyP1KLL6GRJy7dmgGoUJTfC9Ridz 8cYQff81Q6BgTHoL2SvSG81oVwzVWIK78pG0TT+7UgFAYqKoshoIIx+I3aDxLdtC E3GGguGC8FM= =mnE7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
