On Monday 30 January 2006 18:57, Bryant, Phillip -AES wrote:
> RedHat ES Workstation, 2.6.9-11smp
> Dell Precision 530 workstation
> Dell Powervault RAID with 500Gb RAID partition
> reiserfs 3.6.19
>
> The virtual RAID disk was inadvertantly broken when the Dell powervault was
> split into two seperate controlers. When the server was brought back up the
> original virtual disk had to be recreated on the RAID controler.
>
> I was surprised that the problem did not wipe out all of the data on the
> partition but reiserfsck --rebuild-tree had been unable to repiar the
> partition so it can be mounted. It holds the backups for all servers and
> pc's in my office.
>
> This last run did not abort with bad root block as all previous runs had (4).
would you describe the message appeared 4 times more precisely?
> last run ended with:
>
> Pass 3a (looking for lost dir/files):
> Looking for lost directories:
> /1956276_1956286/304c28018c1a645410c2905a0c355871semantic_rebuild.c 563
> get_next_directory_item
> get_next_directory_item: item [61312722 61312723 0x2a1 DRCT (2)]: hidden
> entry 0 ''
> Aborted
>
> I believe all previous aborts happened in phase 0 but I don't really know if
> this is a good sign or not.
would you extract the reiserfs metadata with
debugreiserfs -p <device> | bzip2 -c > <device>.bz2
and provide the result file for downloading to allow us to debug
the fsck locally?
have fsck ended with the last message 1 or more times?
> I've run debugreiserfs and gotten this:
>
> Filesystem state: consistency is not checked after last mounting
> Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x5001 of format 3.6 with standard journal
> Count of blocks on the device: 143372080
> Number of bitmaps: 4376
> Blocksize: 4096
> Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved]
> blocks): 143372080
> Root block: 0
> Filesystem is NOT clean
> Tree height: 65535
> Hash function used to sort names: "r5"
> Objectid map size 972, max 972
> Journal parameters:
> Device [0x0]
> Magic [0x5e4c8641]
> Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 18)
> Max transaction length 1024 blocks
> Max batch size 900 blocks
> Max commit age 30
> Blocks reserved by journal: 0
> Fs state field: 0xfa02:
> FATAL corruptions exist.
> sb_version: 2
> inode generation number: 23368281
> UUID: fbf09431-c46c-4075-bb79-748d7b26f0a0
> LABEL:
> Set flags in SB:
> ATTRIBUTES CLEAN
>
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