On Thu, April 25, 2013 18:08, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Apr 25, 2013 10:37 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <m...@hadt.biz> wrote: >> >> Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> >>> Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: >>> >>> System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. >>> >>> I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest >>> SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same. >>> >>> I'm on an HP DL585 G7 box, by the way, so it's using an AMD CPU. >>> >>> I'd appreciate any suggestions. My Google-fu all expose only old >>> threads. >> >> >> Are there any error/warnings in dmes or the logs? >> >> Maybe the disk is toast? Can you create other file systems? >> > > Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight.
Does it lock every time you try? Or did you only try once? > I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, Does it work on the SAME partition? Eg. having it touch the same physical parts of the same physical disk? > and since the 'disk' is > actually a RAID array, if the array is going south, I should see the same > problem with ext4, right? Not necessarily, a bad part on 1 disk will also mean a bad part on the raid-array. The array should be able to recover though. Is this hardware raid? Or software? And what type of disks are you using? -- Joost
