LVM, NFS, Reiser and ext3

[Derek Fountain <derekfountain@lycos.co.uk>]

Running SuSE 8.1 with their 2.4.19 kernel on a single CPU i386 box.

I have an volume group consisting of 2 IDE based physical volumes and one SCSI 
based one. I created a logical volume of 5GB, put a Reiser file system on it, 
and exported it using kernel NFS. I then had an NFS client (another SuSE 8.1 
box) write data to it. The result was quickly disasterous. Piles of errors 
from reiserfs, resulting in a fs which fsck couldn't deal with.

I reformatted with ext3 and tried again. Several gigabytes of seemingly 
correctly written NFS transfers later, I'm seeing errors on read like:

Jan  6 16:26:47 beetle kernel: EXT3-fs error (device lvm(58,0)): ext3_readdir: 
bad entry in directory #229383: rec_len is too small for name_len - 
offset=504, inode=229395, rec_len=36, name_len=36

and lots and lots of:

Jan  6 16:29:34 beetle kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Jan  6 16:29:34 beetle kernel: 3a:00: rw=0, want=629932036, limit=5242880

Is there reason to believe that LVM, NFS and jouralling file systems don't get 
along?

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