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List:       reiserfs-devel
Subject:    Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS crash on 2.2.19, known bug?
From:       "Yury Yu. Rupasov" <yura () yura ! polnet ! botik ! ru>
Date:       2001-12-19 22:14:56
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David Raufeisen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Running linux 2.2.19 + reiserfs-3.5.33 + openwall + ide 05042001 on a server..
> 
> The machine experienced a lot of lockups over a 48 hour period, the machine has
> a watchdog card, and i'm a continent away so I couldn't record any oops message
> (serial console won't work for some reason either).
> 
> If i remember correctly, a user had a directory named yyy and inside looked
> like a symlink x -> x and when i cat'd x .. the machine locked up hard (x being
> ln -s x x).
> 
> Can anyone with a 2.2.x + reiserfs system test this?
> 
> # mkdir yyy
> # cd yyy
> # ln -s x x
> # cat x
> 

I've just checked this scenario with reiserfs-3.5.34
and could not find the problem.

It just says "cat:x: Too many levels of symbolic links"
Reiserfs-3.5.34 works the same way as 3.5.33 in this case.

Also you can try it as well :
ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.2/linux-2.2.19-reiserfs-3.5.34-patch.bz2

Could you please tell also what gcc version was used
to compile the kernel ?

It is possibly to solve the problem by recompiling kernel
with gcc-2.91.66.

Thanks,
Yura.

> 
> It seems too silly to be an un-noticed bug so perhaps I had a corrupted filesystem, \
> anyway I couldn't have any more downtime so I switched it to ext2 so we can't \
> inspect the filesystem :(. 
> I have 6 2.4 reiserfs machines and this doesn't crash any of them, says "cat:
> x: Too many levels of symbolic links" I have another 2.2 server but don't wanna \
> test it on that either ;) 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> David Raufeisen <david@fortyoz.org>


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