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Hi, Looking for suggestions on diagnosing and fixing a problem with a Reiser partition, complaining of a bad super block. The partition however is on a raid 5 array, which ...
  1. 07-08-2011 #1
    murraymn
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    Reiser Partition Problem

    Hi,
    Looking for suggestions on diagnosing and fixing a problem with a Reiser partition, complaining of a bad super block. The partition however is on a raid 5 array, which was created and managed with mdadm.

    I'm reluctant to just run the reiserfsck --rebuild-sb, because in years past I cannot recall it ever really working.

    Sorry, for any lack of details, not at the server at the moment. Running SuSE 10.

    Mike
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  2. 07-10-2011 #2
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    Just because a filesystem is placed on a RAID does not mean that the filesystem can not develop problems. The raid is managing at the sector level (knowning nothing of the filesystem that is applied to the device) and the filesystem is managing above the sector level. Always backup even when using a RAID device. I have seen lots of RAID devices develop filesystem problems mostly on XFS which required re-imaging and restore from backup in the last year and a half. At work we moved from xfs to ext4. At home I use ReiserFS and jfs.

    I have add lots success running "reiserfsck --rebuild" but I have never had much luck with "xfs-rebuild".
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