Hello On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 10:25 +0200, Francisco Javier Cabello wrote: > Hello, > I am almost sure that unclean shutdowns happen in those systems. We have > tried > to reproduce removing power each 5 minutes and the filesystem wasn't > suffering corruption. Perhaps it's related, but I don't know. > > I have talked about 'Datalogging patches' because it's the only thing > different from our system.
sorry, I am confused. Am I correct that you have set of systems and they all run similar load on the same kernel and only ~10% of them encounter reiserfs corruptions? Do they have identical hardware? > I have searched a lot and few people have > corruption with reiserfs standalone... so, it may be datalogging patches. > > what do you need from reiserfsck? I guess the output of 'reiserfsck --check > device' yes. There is -l option to redirect output to log file. > of perhaps you need the output of reiserfsck --rebuild tree. > > > Regards, > > Paco > > > > > On Thursday, 13 de July de 2006 16:34, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > > 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 >
