Problems with filesyetm(Reiser)

[svar]

Hi, I have been using a 3x38GB(SCSI), 2x1000 CPU, 2GB RAM server
One disk is LVM'd /home and another is /var/lib/mysql(also LVM'd)

This has been working fine for some 8months till
I got corruption on home. I ran reiserfsck and it told me to rebuold tree, which I did. It worked for a few days
and then I got:

> I now get a message:
> Message from syslogd@linux at ....
> linux kernel: journal-712: buffer write failed

and the system hangs
I should also add an excerpt from /var/log/messages:
> I did a search for the string FROM THE TEXT FILE(see below)and found it in
> three files:
> /var/log/messages (sure)
> ./viminfo and another one



> Jan 13 15:28:19 linux kernel: scsi0:0:1:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
> Jan 13 15:28:19 linux kernel: scsi0: Dumping Card State while idle, at SEQADDR

> [Here follws some binary characters and then a piece from a text file I have in a file in one directory in /home(nothing special about thjat file) ...]
>
> This was originally in the /home directory, but when the crash occured I calso
> copied
> this to a temporary directory in /]

Looks like something corrupts the filesystem. Could it be some SCSI error. Any ideas what to check?
Kernel is 2.4.18(from SuSE)
Thanks, svar

 

[marsd]

Have you debugged the scis layer as well as you can?

http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/scsi.html

I think this is a goog possibility for errors, as
the pattern fits fairly cleanly.

Sercondly,have you logged your lvm use?
man(8) lvmsadc

Lastly, even though I don't think this is the problem,
have you looked at the reiserfs project page?

http://www.namesys.com/

 

[MrTom]

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Jun/1620.html

- (you shouldn't have to disable DMA)

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-34/0298.html

 

[svar]

Thanks. I have erased(condensed) a very large number of files
from the directory and the system seems to be flying right now...

svar