i started emerging a bunch of packages in the evening and went to bed.
when i returned the following morning i noticed some packages had failed to install due to I/O errors.
the /var partition got corrupt somehow and since the portage package database resides in the /var filesystem i was faced with some emerge problems.
i rebooted into single user, mounted the /var partition so xfs could read the replay log of that particular filesystem, umounted /var again and went for a xfs_repair.
after performing a dryrun first, i was not so hesitant anylonger and went for the real thing (Tm).
after a while all errors had been corrected and i decided, keeping fingers x-ed, to boot into multi-user mode.
all my kernel modules, which i had setup to autoload via /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-.2.6 wouldn't load and i had to go rebuild them.
fortunately, this worked and i was back to where i was before the XFS weirdness.
coming from the BSD world, this did not boost my confidence for, IMO, the coolest Linux distro out there.
although having faced this filesystem trouble, i've decided to stick with gentoo for a while and will google for the problems i've experienced.
hopefully it's already been reported and is being worked on by the gentoo team.
posted by .marco. @ 20:03
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