Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Feise
Sergey Ivanov wrote on 03/28/06 13:52: > Joe Feise wrote: >> The machine is using ECC memory. Geez, I know what I need for a server... >> From the Dell invoice: >> 512MB DDR2, 400MHz,2X256MB ECC 1R DIMMs for PowerEdge SC420 >> Recreating the partition solved the problem. So to me it sure looks lik

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Feise
Gregory Maxwell wrote on 03/28/06 13:22: > On 3/28/06, Jonathan Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But for a production machine that is "producing" something of value, the >> extra cost should not be an issue. RAM errors are so subtle and so hard >> to find that ECC is of far more value than

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Sergey Ivanov
Joe Feise wrote: > > The machine is using ECC memory. Geez, I know what I need for a server... > From the Dell invoice: > 512MB DDR2, 400MHz,2X256MB ECC 1R DIMMs for PowerEdge SC420 > Recreating the partition solved the problem. So to me it sure looks like > fs corruption. > I have sent the dmesg

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On 3/28/06, Jonathan Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But for a production machine that is "producing" something of value, the > extra cost should not be an issue. RAM errors are so subtle and so hard > to find that ECC is of far more value than RAID. It is obvious when > your disk fails. > >

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Jonathan Briggs
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 12:08 -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: > Jonathan Briggs wrote: [...] > >And if it's a production machine, it is using ECC RAM, I would hope. If > >it is, memory problems (unreported ones, anyway) are very, very > >unlikely. > > > > > Jonathan, be merciful, ECC ram last I checked

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Hans Reiser
Joe Feise wrote: > Jonathan Briggs writes: > >> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: >> [...] >> >>> This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. >>> But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition >>> over night, >>> without problems. >>

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Feise
Hans Reiser writes: Jonathan Briggs wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: [...] This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition over night, without problems. If this was a memory

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joe Feise
Jonathan Briggs writes: On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: [...] This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition over night, without problems. If this was a memory problem, it would indeed

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Hans Reiser
Jonathan Briggs wrote: >On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: >[...] > > >>This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. >>But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition over night, >>without problems. >>If this was a memory problem, it

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Jonathan Briggs
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote: [...] > This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long. > But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition over night, > without problems. > If this was a memory problem, it would indeed manifest itself in

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Toby Thain
On 28-Mar-06, at 10:34 AM, Joachim Feise wrote: Toby Thain wrote on 03/27/06 22:34: On 27-Mar-06, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think that the memory is bad. Th

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Joachim Feise
Toby Thain wrote on 03/27/06 22:34: > On 27-Mar-06, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: >> >>> Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't >>> really think >>> that the memory is bad. The machine most likely would have

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Toby Thain
On 27-Mar-06, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think that the memory is bad. The machine most likely would have had other issues if that was the case. You'd be *

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: > Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think > that the memory is bad. The machine most likely would have had other issues > if that was the case. You'd be *amazed*. Intermittently weak memory (especially if it

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Joe Feise
Joe Feise wrote on 03/27/06 13:41: > Hi, > > I had an interesting crash on my 2.6.16-mm1 machine earlier today. > I usually mount /usr/local readonly: > /dev/sda6 on /usr/local type reiser4 (ro) > However, since I wanted to update a sw package, I remounted it r/w. > The installation of the sw pa

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Joe Feise
Toby Thain writes: On 27-Mar-06, at 4:41 PM, Joe Feise wrote: Hi, I had an interesting crash on my 2.6.16-mm1 machine earlier today. I usually mount /usr/local readonly: /dev/sda6 on /usr/local type reiser4 (ro) However, since I wanted to update a sw package, I remounted it r/w. The installat

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Toby Thain
On 27-Mar-06, at 4:41 PM, Joe Feise wrote: Hi, I had an interesting crash on my 2.6.16-mm1 machine earlier today. I usually mount /usr/local readonly: /dev/sda6 on /usr/local type reiser4 (ro) However, since I wanted to update a sw package, I remounted it r/w. The installation of the sw package

Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Joe Feise
Hi, I had an interesting crash on my 2.6.16-mm1 machine earlier today. I usually mount /usr/local readonly: /dev/sda6 on /usr/local type reiser4 (ro) However, since I wanted to update a sw package, I remounted it r/w. The installation of the sw package failed with reiser4 errors. Sorry, I don't