Re: PROBLEM: File accessing.

[Alex Riesen <Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:47:41PM +0400, Tim Alexeevsky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
> AR>On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 02:40:26AM +0400, Tim Alexeevsky wrote:
> AR>...
> AR>>  Using strace I tracked this problem down to requesting
> AR>>  open("jffs2/gc.c", O_READONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
> AR>>  Now
> AR>>    ls jffs2
> AR>>   also gives me a kernel panic. It's on reiserfs.
> AR>>
> AR>
> AR>i'd suggest you start your next day/night with reiserfsck --fix-fixable.
>    Sure :)
> 
> AR>And you'll have to upgrade your reiserfsprogs up to 3.x.1b.
>    Ok.
> 
>    But if this is the reason for this subproblem, there are some others
> and they all seem to appear simultaneously. They all are the problems with
> accessing files. And as long as I got the first problem I will have a
> lots of them on different filesystems until I reboot the system (AFAIK).
>    Maybe the reason is some damage in global filesystem handling. (Is that
> VFS?)

that's not the reason 8-) That are consequences.
Maybe upgrade the kernel as well? 2.4.19-rc1 seems to be quiet stable
for me and there was some changes to reiserfs since 2.4.17.