Thus spake Anthony Campbell on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +0000: > After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the frequent > lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4 series kernels is due to > enabling ext3. If I turn this off in fstab the lockups don't occur. Has > anyone else seen this?
Yes, I have had lockups too. Config is 2.4.17 +ext3 +preempt patch +lock-break_patch I don't know which of these is causing ext3 to fail, but since it's all alpha stuff, I can't complain. Switching back to ext2 solved most problems. <HELP NEEDED> However, it would seem that my root partition is still mounted as ext3, though it's specified as ext2 in /etc/fstab: dmesg: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. But 'mount' show / as being 'ext2'. And I still have lockups, though less frequent than before, when I was 100% ext3. </> The other partitions seem to be mounted as vanilla ext2, and don't seem to fail. I also have problems with SysRq+S not syncing. I'll rollback the patches, and stay on ext2 for the time being... :) HTH, Romain -- Youth is a disease from which we all recover. -- Dorothy Fuldheim