suspend to disk (was Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means))

2006-12-23 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >Stop spreading fud. Take powersave + suspend from > >suse10.2, and see > >if you can break it. > > > >sata_nv seems to have problem, that's it. and it > >triggered problem in > >reiserfs. Use ext3 if you care about your data, and yes > >your drivers > >need to support suspend/resume. >

suspend to disk (was Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means))

2006-12-23 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Stop spreading fud. Take powersave + suspend from suse10.2, and see if you can break it. sata_nv seems to have problem, that's it. and it triggered problem in reiserfs. Use ext3 if you care about your data, and yes your drivers need to support suspend/resume. My Compaq

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-15 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
Pavel Machek wrote: On Tue 12-12-06 23:45:27, Olivier Galibert wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:44:18AM -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote: When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. Suspend to disk is not trustable on Linux, and does not look like it will be

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-15 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 12-12-06 23:45:27, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:44:18AM -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote: > > When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. > > Suspend to disk is not trustable on Linux, and does not look like it > will be any time soon. Suspend to

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-15 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 12-12-06 23:45:27, Olivier Galibert wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:44:18AM -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote: When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. Suspend to disk is not trustable on Linux, and does not look like it will be any time soon. Suspend to ram has

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-15 Thread Jeffrey V. Merkey
Pavel Machek wrote: On Tue 12-12-06 23:45:27, Olivier Galibert wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:44:18AM -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote: When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. Suspend to disk is not trustable on Linux, and does not look like it will be

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Andrew Robinson wrote: When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. I woke my computer up from work remotely using wakeonlan. When the computer was responsive, I started getting I/O errors and when I saw my kernel log I saw file corruption problems with my "/dev/sda2" device

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-13 Thread Tejun Heo
Andrew Robinson wrote: When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. I woke my computer up from work remotely using wakeonlan. When the computer was responsive, I started getting I/O errors and when I saw my kernel log I saw file corruption problems with my /dev/sda2 device

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:44:18AM -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote: > When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. Suspend to disk is not trustable on Linux, and does not look like it will be any time soon. Suspend to ram has a better chance of becoming reliable, but at that

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Phillip Susi wrote: If your comment here was in reply to my general comment about resierfs stability and not the specific hibernation issue the OP was having, please edit the quote down to just that portion instead of quoting the entire message, including the quotes it was replying to. I

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Phillip Susi
No. I still see corruption on Suse with Reiser FS. It's always very subtle (like the last block of a file doesn;t get copied or gets corrupted. We have been running our ftp server on ReiserFS, and as soon as I can get it moved back to ext3, we are doing so. We have had a lot of issues with

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Phillip Susi wrote: Andrew Robinson wrote: Now I am confused on what may be the cause of the corruption. Could it have been just a ReiserFS problem (I will be using Ext3 or JSF on my next rebuild I think after reading some reviews on the ReiserFS and this recent experience). I have been

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Phillip Susi
Andrew Robinson wrote: Now I am confused on what may be the cause of the corruption. Could it have been just a ReiserFS problem (I will be using Ext3 or JSF on my next rebuild I think after reading some reviews on the ReiserFS and this recent experience). I have been running reiser on my home

ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Robinson
Okay, I'm having a really bad day (or week) and I want to apologize for the rantish email. I just went back into the configuration for the new kernel, and I was wrong about the experimental state of the SATA, but it appears the PATA state is experimental instead. Now I am confused on what may be

ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Andrew Robinson
Okay, I'm having a really bad day (or week) and I want to apologize for the rantish email. I just went back into the configuration for the new kernel, and I was wrong about the experimental state of the SATA, but it appears the PATA state is experimental instead. Now I am confused on what may be

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Phillip Susi
Andrew Robinson wrote: Now I am confused on what may be the cause of the corruption. Could it have been just a ReiserFS problem (I will be using Ext3 or JSF on my next rebuild I think after reading some reviews on the ReiserFS and this recent experience). I have been running reiser on my home

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Phillip Susi wrote: Andrew Robinson wrote: Now I am confused on what may be the cause of the corruption. Could it have been just a ReiserFS problem (I will be using Ext3 or JSF on my next rebuild I think after reading some reviews on the ReiserFS and this recent experience). I have been

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Phillip Susi
No. I still see corruption on Suse with Reiser FS. It's always very subtle (like the last block of a file doesn;t get copied or gets corrupted. We have been running our ftp server on ReiserFS, and as soon as I can get it moved back to ext3, we are doing so. We have had a lot of issues with

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Phillip Susi wrote: If your comment here was in reply to my general comment about resierfs stability and not the specific hibernation issue the OP was having, please edit the quote down to just that portion instead of quoting the entire message, including the quotes it was replying to. I

Re: ReiserFS corruption with 2.6.19 (Was 2.6.19 is not stable with SATA and should not be used by any meansis not stable with SATA and should not be used by any means)

2006-12-12 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:44:18AM -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote: When I said hibernate, I did mention it was to disk, not to ram. Suspend to disk is not trustable on Linux, and does not look like it will be any time soon. Suspend to ram has a better chance of becoming reliable, but at that