i have been experiencing hard locks (preceded by intense 5< load
averages, disk i/o timeouts, and processes gone astray) that seem to
be related to a possible bug in reiser4.
here is the information that i think is important:
a sample dmesg from right before a hardlock:
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Jure Pečar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that solid state disks are getting affordable (Gigabyte iRam, for
> example), it makes sense to use them as external journal with full data
> journaling, so they cache all the small writes and dump them to disks
> in one single sequential write on every journal
