Bill Noyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This has been confusing me like hell......
>
> I'm putting the cooker on a Dell Inspiron 8000.
>
> I had setup a system:
>
> / = ext2
> /usr = reiserfs
> /home = reiserfs
>
> I was getting a weird problem. During random disk activity. e.g. installing
> rpm updates. The rpm process would freeze, but not the computer or X
desktop.
> But I could no longer do anything that needed to talk to the filesystem. I
> thought it was disk related. I could call a system shutdown, if there was a
> spare console open, and it would display the shutdown broadcast, but nothing
> would get killed.
>
> So I reinstalled with just one reiserfs:
>
> / = ext2
> /home = reiserfs
>
> And I've just had the same things happen. But this time I was able to put
the
> finger on the /home Reiser Partition, as I could do everything, except
> operate on the /home partition.
>
> I've now umounted /home and wait to hear if this is just my system that has
> problems with ReiserFS or if everyone is avoiding it?
>
> Can I be of any help debugging this problem?
>
> Rgds,
>
> Billus.
I had a system with only reiserfs partitions and experienced the same kind of
problems. I completly reinstalled it with ext2 partitions.
Actually, I tried reiserfsck before that, but I never could recover the file
system corruptions.
For example, the mtab file would always contain twice the same line.
I remember seing an out of memory kernel message.
I also had these freezes with rpm (installing several packages at a time), so
I am not sure which of rpm or reiserfs is the real responsible.
Good luck,
=-=
kk1
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