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.
