Hello guys,
I´m new to posting on this list, but I´ve been following it for a while now.
My name is Roland and I have some basic knowledge on linux. I really
do like the Mandrake distribution and would like to conribute as much
as I can.
I´ve had about same problem with reiserfs partitions, which startet to occur
after a kernel update to 20mdk. with 15mdk everything was alright.
the problems with my mashine did not only concern upgrading an libs,
but especially large files froze my mashine. a 700 mb file even froze it to
death.
a warning:
nobody try the reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on this. (well I tried ;-)
the current version is definitely not safe and shredders your partition (was it built
with gcc 296 ??). it did just stop at some point without error message.
maybe those suse patches that were included in kernel ??
regards
Roland
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On 29.03.2001 at 16:56 Simon Peter Nicholls wrote:
>I've had exactly the same problem with urpmi updates on my reiserfs
>partition.
>The problem only started within the last few days though - updates were
>fine before.
>I tried restarting each time but my lib files became corrupted somewhere
>along the line - I've just reverted to beta2.
>
>Is there any chance of having the 'install from hdisk' instal option
>recognize reiserfs? It would help lots!
>
>
>Si
>
>> 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.
>>
