Re: 2.6.18/Reiser3 - lost directory and strange warnings

[Phillip Susi]

Martin Lorenz wrote:
> panic arose about an hour ago...
> a whole directory tree was suddenly gone and every try to access it resulted
> in an i/o error
>
> the log shows this:

<snip>

> a reboot into maintainance mode and fsck of the partition brought the dir
> back without data loss (pffffew!)
>
> but I am still concerned, what has happened here?

Your partition was damaged.

> a grep on my syslogs revealed quite a few similar warnings which I obviously
> diden't notice. - attached wich a few lines of context

Check for disk IO errors, and you also might want to run badblocks 
and/or the smartmontools on the device to check for hardware errors. 
Also a memtest86 for a few hours to rule out corrupted ram.

> see http://www.lorenz.eu.org/~mlo/kernel/?C=M;O=D for more
>
>
> gruss
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