Re: Recursive chmod/chown OOM kills box with 32MB RAM

[Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>]

> > reiserfstune -s 1024 /dev/xxxx
> 
> I had reiserfsprogs 3.6.11 and reiserfstune (above command) made my /dev/sdc3
> unmountable without -t reiserfs. I upgraded reiserfsprogs to 3.6.19 and now
> reiserfsck /dev/sdc3 reports no problems, but mount problem persists:
> 
> # mount -t reiserfs /dev/sdc3 /.3
> # umount /.3
> # mount /dev/sdc3 /.3
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> # dmesg | tail -3
> br: port 1(ifi) entering forwarding state
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdc3.
> 
> "chown -Rc <n>:<m> ." now does not OOM kill the box, so this issue
> is resolved, thanks!
> 
> Can I restore sdc3 somehow that I won't need -t reiserfs in mount command?
> You can find result of
> 
> dd if=/dev/sdc3 of=1m bs=1M count=1
> 
> at http://195.66.192.167/linux/1m

the problem seems to be in mount program, which version do you use?
I still have no problem with your 1m image, mount version is 2.11z, 
2.12c.

-- 
Vitaly