Hello On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:16 +0200, Francisco Javier Cabello wrote: > Hello, > My company develops video recorder system. Basically we work with linux boxes > running kernel 2.4.25. The system captures analogue video, and after > processing and compressing, digital video is stored to hard disk. We are > recording continuously (24x7). > > We have realized that more or less a 10% of our systems are suffering data > corruption in the reiserfs partition.
Did unclean shutdowns take place on those systems? If you let us see what does reiserfsck report in those cases that could help to understand what is is happening. > Sometimes it's possible to fix it > running 'reiserfsck --rebuild-tree' but not always. > More information: > -Kernel 2.4.25 + v4l2 patches > -Reiserfsprogs 3.6.19 > -Datalogging patches. > (http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse-people/mason/patches/data-logging/2.4.25/) > > I have checked datalogging patches from Reiserfs website and they seem equal > to suse ones. > > I don't have any idea of what it's happening. The disk bandwidth is not so > high (300-500kb/sec). The disk is always full at 90% (we have a process > deleting old video). > > I have been thinking about removing Dataloggin patches but I would like to > have serious reason. It's not easy to check that the problem is solved > because we are not able to reproduce the error in our headquarter. > > Regards, > > Paco > >
