Re: ReiserFS causing kernel panic?

From: Mark Williams (MWP)
Date: Sun Oct 12 2003 - 11:25:29 EST


> On Oct-12 2003, Sun, 23:30 +0930
> Mark Williams (MWP) <mwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > "Mark Williams (MWP)" <mwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > > > I am having rather ugly problems with this card using the PDC20269 chip.
> > > > Almost as soon as either of the HDDs on the controller are used, the
> > > > kernel hangs solid with a dump of debugging info.
> > >
> > > That dump could be useful. Also full output of dmesg and "lspci -vv"
> > > can be helpful.
> >
> > Ok, seems this is not a controller fault, but really a problem with
> > ReiserFS (!!).
>
> Do you really expect reiserfs code (or any other fs code for that matter)
> not to choke on a corrupted filesystem?
>
> Put the disk on a trusted controller and fsck.

No, i wouldnt expect reiserfs to handle the data on the FS, but i also
wouldnt have expected it to cause a kernel panic and hang the system.
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