On 04 Feb 2002, Romain Lerallut wrote: > 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... :) >
Relieved to find I'm not the only one. I don't have the above patches; just ext3. I tried to enable nmi_watchdog to try to spot the problem but it doesn't seem to want to work. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]
