[bug #17957] ReiserFS journal replay doesn't work

[Mikulas Patocka]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17957>

                 Summary: ReiserFS journal replay doesn't work
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: mikulas
            Submitted on: Monday 10/09/2006 at 18:57
                Category: Filesystem
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Mikulas Patocka
        Originator Email: Mikulas
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 0.97
         Reproducibility: Once
         Planned Release: 

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Details:

Once when I rebooted Linux on ReiserFS without proper shutdown (expecting
that ReiserFS can recover from that), I was unable to boot Linux kernel using
using GRUB --- it reported "Inconsistent filesystem structure".

It wasn't even able to execute "chainloader (hd0,1)+1; savedefault 1" command
(with the same message), to load different operating system.

Only one of the entries for an old kernel actually worked, I booted into
Linux using it, Linux did journal replay, and GRUB bootes all entries fine
since then. I guess that ReiserFS journal replay code in GRUB is buggy.

The system is Suse Linux 10.0

I'm sorry I don't have the dump of that partition in unreadable state.







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