On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Edward Shishkin
<edward.shishkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Matthew wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Dushan Tcholich <dusanc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I had a same scary experience of reiser4 repairing thousands of errors on
> >>cryptocompressed partition, but it was false alarm as Edward said:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Me:
> >>>
> >>>
> >> > After fsck.reiser4 --check I had to do a fsck.reiser4 --build-fs,
> >> > which lasted ~55min. It fixed 1 error on the start and for next 50 min
> >> > fixed wrong bytes errors in every node, like in the second picture.
> >>
> >>Edward:
> >> Ignore reports about wrong bytes.
> >> This is because cryptcompress plugin doesn't keep a track about bytes,
> >> and fsck calculates and insert correct value. Keeping a track of bytes
> >> by kernel leads to performance drop (even worse then with atime), so
> >> we decided to not support it.
> >>
> >>
> >>Were those thousands of errors in step 6. of your mail wrong byte errors?
> >>
> >>Dushan
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hi, Dushan,
> >
> >no, those actually were (real) data corruption errors,
> >as I wrote (I didn't made it that clear) I impatiently interrupted
> >fsck.reiser4, reformatted the partition and extracted the tarball with
> >the system
> >
> >I just woke up & thinking over it now: the corruption behavior was
> >pretty similar to the corruption with bitdefender-console,
> >
> >Edward:
> >I hope you still have the mails were I described
> >"corrupting"/triggering the error with ntfs-scanning before you fixed
> >it?
> >
> >1.) boot into system with reiser4 as root partition
> >2.) start up GUI (gnome, kde, whatever)
> >3.) work with with it a little
> >4.) mount ntfs-partition (it shouldn't matter if mounted with
> >in-kernel ntfs-driver or ntfs3g) [the partition should ideally contain
> >a windows-system with several gigabytes of data]
> >5.) scan the partition with bdc --arc --files /mnt/win
> >
> >
>
> what is the bdc?
>
>
>
> >6.) filesystem corrupts,
> >7.) result: nothing can be launched anymore, even bash is broken -
> >just everything
> >
> >it was also the case this time:
> >whenever I tried to launch epiphany, nautilus, gnome-terminal it
> >wouldn't launch them
> >--> the only thing still working was gnome-terminal
> >after that I exited to the CLI & when I recognised it was similar to
> >the previous corruption case (bitdefender-console)
> >I immediately killed everything via magic sysrq key & rebooted without
> >syncing to maintain my data intact (on /home)
> >
> >the behavior is pretty interesting:
> >it seems to corrupt progressively in steps (such as with the
> >bitdefender-console corruption)
> >
> >first almost all still works, bit by bit more and more programs won't
> >work anymore
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Mat
> >
> >
> >
>
>
sorry for not clearing that:
[I] app-antivirus/bitdefender-console
Available versions: -7.0.1-r1 -7.0.1-r1[1] (~)7.1 (~)7.1[1]
Installed versions: 7.1[1](22:37:31 06.01.2008)
Homepage: http://www.bitdefender.com/
Description: BitDefender console antivirus
[1] "portage" /usr/local/portage
the name of the program's file is:
' BitDefender-Console-Antivirus-7.1-3.linux-gcc3x.i386.run '
Thanks
Mat
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