Michael James wrote: >Dear Reiser experts and enthusiasts, > >I can't get the reiser4 in Suse9.3 Pro to work. > >The problem is completely repeatable, happens every time. > >Unmount a happy reiserfs3.6 data partition. >Re-format it as reiser4. >Re-mount it. >Copy something BIG into it. >As soon as it sees a file >2 Gig, the copy process hangs. >Once the copy is hung anything that reads that partition hangs too. > > >The system is a Dell 1655MC blade server. >It's a fully patched Suse9.3 pro machine. >All the reiser components are stock Suse. > >a3:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release >SuSE Linux 9.3 (i586) >VERSION = 9.3 > >a3:~ # cat /proc/version >Linux version 2.6.11.4-21.8-bigsmp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 >20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 > >a3:~ # l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.4-21.8-bigsmp >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1555967 Jul 24 > 00:55 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.4-21.8-bigsmp > > >Here's the simple path to destruction: > >Have a lot of fun... >a3:~ # umount /coda > >a3:~ # mkfs.reiser4 /dev/sda4 >mkfs.reiser4 1.0.3 >Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Hans Reiser, > licensing governed by reiser4progs/COPYING. > >Block size 4096 will be used. >Linux 2.6.11.4-21.8-bigsmp is detected. >Uuid 01d3e4b0-e5b2-4b1b-a525-17fd4c239af1 will be used. >Reiser4 is going to be created on /dev/sda4. >(Yes/No): Yes >Creating reiser4 on /dev/sda4 ... done > >a3:~ # fsck.reiser4 /dev/sda4 > >******************************************************************* >This is an EXPERIMENTAL version of fsck.reiser4. Read README first. >******************************************************************* > >Fscking the /dev/sda4 block device. >Will check the consistency of the Reiser4 SuperBlock. >Will check the consistency of the Reiser4 FileSystem. >Continue? >(Yes/No): Yes >***** fsck.reiser4 started at Wed Aug 17 11:46:19 2005 >Reiser4 fs was detected on /dev/sda4. >Master super block (16): >magic: ReIsEr4 >blksize: 4096 >format: 0x0 (format40) >uuid: 01d3e4b0-e5b2-4b1b-a525-17fd4c239af1 >label: <none> > >Format super block (17): >plugin: format40 >description: Disk-format for reiser4. >magic: ReIsEr40FoRmAt >flushes: 0 >mkfs id: 0x2783ddb9 >blocks: 7349737 >free blocks: 7349476 >root block: 23 >tail policy: 0x2 (smart) >next oid: 0x10000 >file count: 0 >tree height: 2 >key policy: LARGE > > >CHECKING STORAGE TREE > Read nodes 2 > Nodes left in the tree 2 > Leaves of them 1, Twigs of them 1 > Time interval: Wed Aug 17 11:46:21 2005 - Wed Aug 17 11:46:21 >2005 >CHECKING EXTENT REGIONS. > Read twigs 1 > Time interval: Wed Aug 17 11:46:21 2005 - Wed Aug 17 11:46:21 >2005 >CHECKING SEMANTIC TREE > Found 1 objects. > Time interval: Wed Aug 17 11:46:21 2005 - Wed Aug 17 11:46:21 >2005 >***** fsck.reiser4 finished at Wed Aug 17 11:46:21 2005 >Closing fs...done > >FS is consistent. > >a3:~ # mount -t reiser4 /dev/sda4 /coda > >a3:~ # mkdir /coda/blastN >a3:~ # mkdir /coda/blastP > >a3:~ # chown -R biofile:www /coda/ >a3:~ # su - biofile > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ pwd >/home/cbf/biofile > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ cp -av db/blastN/ /coda/blastN/ >`db/blastN/' -> `/coda/blastN/blastN' >`db/blastN/nt' -> `/coda/blastN/blastN/nt' >`db/blastN/nt/.nt.log' -> `/coda/blastN/blastN/nt/.nt.log' >`db/blastN/nt/nt.00.nhr' -> `/coda/blastN/blastN/nt/nt.00.nhr' > >And there it hangs, ^C does no good. >Close that local window, log in again and: > > >Have a lot of fun... >a3:~ # df >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >/dev/sda2 4080316 2583200 1497116 64% / >tmpfs 1035968 0 1035968 0% /dev/shm >/dev/sda1 23300 8395 13702 38% /boot >darius:/home 714091552 491106336 222985216 69% /home >darius:/var/spool/share > 20136800 3830208 16306592 20% /var/spool/share >/dev/sda4 27934744 519076 27415668 2% /coda > > >a3:/var/log # ls -la /coda/ > >And that's it for that window too, it's hung beyond ^C retrieving it. > >This is what always happens, > I think it relates to the files being bigger than 2 Gig. >This time it died copying nt.nhr > >ls -la /home/cbf/biofile/db/blastN/nt/nt.00.nhr >-rw-r--r-- 1 biofile www 179427600 2005-08-05 20:31 nt.00.nhr > >Performance on the filesystem is important, > I'm keen to get reiser4 working. >Any help with this would be appreciated, > if there's any extra info needed, just ask, > >michaelj > > > Try an official Linus kernel with our latest snapshot....
Hans
