Ok ok.. So I appoligize. As I sent this, I started reading the thread that
talks about VIA and reiserfs. I still need some explaining thought. I
don't see why the older kernels work fine and only the newer kernels have
problems?
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Nima S. Panahi wrote:
> This is a strange problem that I have explored ever since beta 3 came out.
> I am not sure if it exited before beta 3, since I did not test it as much
> as I have now, but it could have. Anyway.. on with the problem.
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> Reiserfs brakes bad with the kernel that came with beta 3 and even the
> newer cooker 2.4.3-17mdk. It almost randomly seems to hang while accessing
> reiserfs filesystems and refuses to do anything. The ONLY solution is the
> reset button. It FOR SURE hangs when creating/accessing files larger than
> 2.0G and many files under /usr/share/doc. The files like /usr/share/doc
> "seem" to get away when I reformated the filesystem with the newer
> Reiserfs 3.6 (it was 3.5 before). However, the only way to get hanging
> problem solved (especially with large files) is to use kernels that are
> lower than or equal to the one shipped with 8.0 beta 2.
> Anyone have ANY idea what is going on? TIA.
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