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 --- All progress is the work of fanatics All fanatics are the work of progress 3:00pm up 6 days, 7:34, 6 users, load average: 1.28, 1.18, 1.10 _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
