On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Pete French wrote:

> > hm I have this chipset the audio is horrible, I also had a problem using
> > reiserfs which caused almost daily reboots, I switched to ext3 and didn't
>
> Was this with an IDE drive by any chance ? The bug involved the southbridge
> as I recall and any heavy tarffic on both the PCI bus and the IDE cotnrollers
> would cause corruption. It was shown up most easily with the SB Live,
> but had the potential to exist with any heavy PCI activity.

yeah, I don't understand why it only did it with reiserfs though! I mean
in 5 months of ext3 use I'd expect _some_ heavy disk activity. (I was seriously
rebooting 5 times a week with reiserfs after hard lockups)

ext3 is linux's journalling hack to ext2fs

> > reboot for 162 days after that (until the wind blew down a powerline). No one
> > thinks this makes the least bit of sense, but it's true.
>
> Well, different filesystems have different write behaviour patterns, so that
> does make sense. Though I ahvent got a clue what all the 'ext' things
> are like - I assume they are similar to a UNIX UFS filesystem though ?, better
> cacheing and something like softupdates might be causing blocks written to
> disc to tricle through at a lower rate maybe ?

I know there are different write schemes and such but this is just so drastic
a difference it doesn't seem logical at all. Or maybe it does.
Eh. Back to xmame talk.

brian
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