George Mitchell wrote:
> I know that this is not an answer to your problem, but I am running 8.1
> (with 2.4.8-34.1) with all but my home partition formatted ext3. I am
> constantly crashing this system due to some usb problem jamming up the
> shutdown. Thus I am continually recovering those partitions from the
> journals and have never encountered the problem you are describing. I
> am just wondering if there is something unique about your system that is
> causing the problem. In any case, I have not seen it (yet).
>
I've seen the USB shutdown problem. This on a ASUS P2B-D.
I had the misfortune to have it catch reiserfs in a weak
moment where I had to re-install since /etc/fstab got corrupted.
Haven't seen usb shutdown problems yet on my new machine.
(Tyan Thunder i860... If any kernel hacks want a 860 system
to try things out on... )
-randy
