Reiserfs partition problem

Dennis plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:30:29 -0700 (MST)


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, foodog wrote:

> I'm bringing up a server to run CommuniGate Pro (nice, BTW) under RH 7.1
> and was wondering if anyone has heard of this offhand:  at shutdown, if
> I haven't dismounted the reiserfs partition the system hangs trying to
> unmount filesystems.

This is a 'known problem' with at least one of the 2.4 Kernels. I don't
know if it is Red Hat specific, but I ran into it under RH 7.1 as well.

Kernel 2.4.6 or later fixes this (very annoying) problem. I downloaded
2.4.6 from www.kernel.org, built it and was good to go.

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