[linux-lvm] PBs with LVM over software RAID

svetljo galia at st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de
Wed Sep 5 22:18:52 UTC 2001


i'll do the loop and i already did the memtest86 i had no probs
and what about mke2fs it also segfaults
and when it stresses the hardware why didn't it crashed the system and 
only segfaults without errors ?

Olivier Sessink wrote:

>On  0, svetljo <galia at st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>
>>hi
>>it works with IMB's JFS
>>when i try mkfs -t reiserfs -f /dev/myData/SRC it segfaults :
>>
>>[root at svetljo mnt]# mkfs -t reiserfs -f /dev/myData/SRC
>>mkreiserfs, 2001 - reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j
>>===================================================================
>>LEAF NODE (8211) contains level=1, nr_items=2, free_space=3932 rdkey
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>|###|type|ilen|f/sp| loc|fmt|fsck|                   
>>key                      |
>>|   |    |    |e/cn|    |   
>>|need|                                            |
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Segmentation fault
>>
>>isn't that a bit strange that reiserfs and xfs doesn't handle it, but 
>>jfs does
>>
>
>reiserfs is known to stress hardware more, a lot of people with
>almost-stable hardware get problems when using reiserfs. XFS might behave
>the same. Test your system using memtest86, and run 'make -j3 clean bzImage'
>in a loop for a while to check if your hardware is OK.
>
>regards,
>	Olivier
>






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