Hi, I'm running into the same problem as other people recently (see kernel log below). However, the patch http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=112300831729572&w=2 doesn't apply to 2.6.15.5 I'm using, and it's not stratightforward to add it by hand. Do you have an updated patch?
Thanks, Roland [244305.863380] REISERFS: panic (device dm-7): journal-1413: journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big [244305.863384] [244305.863423] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [244305.863434] kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/prints.c:362! [244305.863446] invalid operand: 0000 [#1] [244305.863455] SMP [244305.863463] Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ip_nat ip_conntrack ip_tables w83781d hwmon_vid i2c_isa i2c_core bcm5700 [244305.863520] CPU: 0 [244305.863521] EIP: 0060:[<c0192860>] Not tainted VLI [244305.863523] EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.15.5) [244305.863553] EIP is at reiserfs_panic+0x39/0x59 [244305.863575] eax: 00000080 ebx: c03878a6 ecx: f676bad8 edx: c0389a45 [244305.863600] esi: f6027e00 edi: f6027f50 ebp: f39b56b8 esp: f676bad4 [244305.863624] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 [244305.863644] Process nfsd (pid: 1645, threadinfo=f676a000 task=f65ad070) [244305.863657] Stack: c0389a45 f6027f50 c04bce60 f6027e00 ffffffff f8d6c000 c019e48b f6027e00 [244305.863713] c038ba38 00000400 00000445 00000000 00007499 f6027e00 00000b97 f8d62000 [244305.863769] c017e96c f676be8c f6027e00 f39b56b8 f4beb9f8 f4bb6000 05cbf499 dca7d530 [244305.863825] Call Trace: [244305.863852] [<c019e48b>] journal_mark_dirty+0x10f/0x21b [244305.863884] [<c017e96c>] _reiserfs_free_block+0xd9/0x155 [244305.863914] [<c0198488>] prepare_for_delete_or_cut+0x5f1/0x66d [244305.863945] [<c01991f8>] reiserfs_cut_from_item+0xbb/0x463 [244305.863986] [<c019995a>] reiserfs_do_truncate+0x34b/0x4cd [244305.864015] [<c01fa702>] get_options+0x3e/0x43 [244305.864042] [<c015d339>] dput+0x1b/0x188 [244305.864071] [<c0198d4d>] reiserfs_delete_object+0x31/0x5f [244305.864099] [<c0184fc9>] reiserfs_delete_inode+0x89/0x101 [244305.864127] [<c0184f40>] reiserfs_delete_inode+0x0/0x101 [244305.864155] [<c015faa9>] generic_delete_inode+0x8e/0xfd [244305.864183] [<c015e30c>] d_delete+0x9e/0xf8 [244305.864208] [<c01577f9>] vfs_unlink+0x183/0x18a [244305.864236] [<f8d968f8>] nfsd_unlink+0x19e/0x1de [nfsd] [244305.864283] [<f8d9bfc0>] nfsd3_proc_remove+0x8f/0x98 [nfsd] [244305.864324] [<f8d915d3>] nfsd_dispatch+0xbd/0x172 [nfsd] [244305.864361] [<c034f5b3>] svc_process+0x366/0x59f [244305.864392] [<f8d913b8>] nfsd+0x18f/0x2ed [nfsd] [244305.864428] [<f8d91229>] nfsd+0x0/0x2ed [nfsd] [244305.864462] [<c0100ea5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb [244305.864489] Code: 78 38 c0 ff 74 24 18 8d be 50 01 00 00 e8 c9 fd ff ff 58 85 f6 89 d8 0f 45 c7 5a 68 60 ce 4b c0 50 68 45 9a 38 c0 e8 21 53 f8 ff <0f> 0b 6a 01 69 9a 38 c0 83 c4 0c 85 f6 68 60 ce 4b c0 0f 45 df [244305.865048] Badness in do_exit at kernel/exit.c:796 [244305.865149] [<c0119851>] do_exit+0x37/0x332 [244305.865291] [<c01038ff>] do_trap+0x0/0xc1 [244305.865431] [<c0103b60>] do_invalid_op+0x0/0x86 [244305.865569] [<c0103bda>] do_invalid_op+0x7a/0x86 [244305.865709] [<c0192860>] reiserfs_panic+0x39/0x59 [244305.865849] [<c0117ec7>] release_console_sem+0x9e/0xa2 [244305.865989] [<c0117d96>] vprintk+0x204/0x228 [244305.866128] [<c01032ef>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 [244305.866267] [<c0192860>] reiserfs_panic+0x39/0x59 [244305.866406] [<c019e48b>] journal_mark_dirty+0x10f/0x21b [244305.866547] [<c017e96c>] _reiserfs_free_block+0xd9/0x155 [244305.866688] [<c0198488>] prepare_for_delete_or_cut+0x5f1/0x66d [244305.866831] [<c01991f8>] reiserfs_cut_from_item+0xbb/0x463 [244305.866993] [<c019995a>] reiserfs_do_truncate+0x34b/0x4cd [244305.867135] [<c01fa702>] get_options+0x3e/0x43 [244305.867273] [<c015d339>] dput+0x1b/0x188 [244305.867413] [<c0198d4d>] reiserfs_delete_object+0x31/0x5f [244305.867553] [<c0184fc9>] reiserfs_delete_inode+0x89/0x101 [244305.867700] [<c0184f40>] reiserfs_delete_inode+0x0/0x101 [244305.867842] [<c015faa9>] generic_delete_inode+0x8e/0xfd [244305.867983] [<c015e30c>] d_delete+0x9e/0xf8 [244305.868122] [<c01577f9>] vfs_unlink+0x183/0x18a [244305.868287] [<f8d968f8>] nfsd_unlink+0x19e/0x1de [nfsd] [244305.868438] [<f8d9bfc0>] nfsd3_proc_remove+0x8f/0x98 [nfsd] [244305.868592] [<f8d915d3>] nfsd_dispatch+0xbd/0x172 [nfsd] [244305.868740] [<c034f5b3>] svc_process+0x366/0x59f [244305.868880] [<f8d913b8>] nfsd+0x18f/0x2ed [nfsd] [244305.869027] [<f8d91229>] nfsd+0x0/0x2ed [nfsd] [244305.869173] [<c0100ea5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
