On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:19 am, John Wilson wrote: > On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote: > > On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote: > > <sniplet> > > > > > Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to > > > > Mozzila. I have to do an rm -Rf .mozilla about once every 2 > > > > months and then move my backup of bookmarks and cookie (do > > > > not set) files back over. 2 times now it's created a file I > > > > couldn't remove. Except by a 3rd party (rescue disk) boot > > > > and removal. > > > > > > > > James > > > > > > mine was a mozilla cache file too, now that I think about it. > > > So the problem that I experienced in that case probably wasn't > > > reiserfs, but reiserfsck. > > > > > > That said, once you've had to rebuild and restore an 8x72GB > > > RAID5 production array during business hours because the > > > filesystem caused a kernel panic under load, you tend to cast a > > > hairy eyeball toward that file system... > > > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3455/2003/7/0/10528457/ > > > > Thanks people. I've just done a complete reinstall and moved over > > to 99% reiserFS. ;-( > > I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem > except with Mozilla. Mozilla has also caused the same kinda > problem with ext2 and ext3. My best guess is that it's a messed up > file that Mozilla was trying to write as it ran wild and I had to > kill it cause that's when this mess appears. It also happens with > Galleon, btw. > > I've also had to go the route James has which is why my day to day > browser is Konq now. > > ttfn > > John
Have yoiu reported this to the Mozilla developers? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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