Re: forwarded message from Jan De Luyck

[Vitaly Fertman]

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
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