Re: forwarded message from Jan De Luyck

[Hans Reiser]

Vitaly Fertman wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 December 2003 22:54, Hans Reiser wrote:
>  
>
> > Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Today I discovered this in my syslogs, after something strange
> > > > happening to XFree86 (hung at startup, then dumped me back to the
> > > > console)
> > > >
> > > > is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=41, free_space=65224
> > > > rdkey vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 283191. Fsck?
> > > > vs-13070: reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find
> > > > stat data of [11 12795 0x0 SD] is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1,
> > > > nr_items=41, free_space=65224 rdkey vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid
> > > > format found in block 283191. Fsck? vs-13070:
> > > > reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat
> > > > data of [11 12798 0x0 SD]
> > > >        
> > > this all about fs corruptions. fsck is needed.
> > >      
> > is this a failure due to bad sector on the drive?
> >    
>
> No, we return EIO in many places if some data corruption is found 
> even if the hardware has worked ok. A stat data has not been found
> here and EIO is returned.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Vitaly Fertman
>
>
>  
fix the code to have a more accurate description.  This is not what I 
would consider an IO error, and it should not describe itself to users 
that way.

Also, please attempt to determine if this is happening on a file system 
that has only had a recent kernel running on it.  I am concerned that we 
might have a bug in recent V3.

--
Hans


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