Screwy EXT2 and ReiserFS

Anyone curious... http://www.memtest86.com

I got this from Freshmeat.. Very slick little program. Gives you the
source, you compile it and it gives you a bootable image. Very nice setup.
Thanks again Nick!

nathan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Estes" <nick@nickstoys.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, 13 August, 2001 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Screwy EXT2 and ReiserFS


> > <stuff about switching from ext2 to reiserfs chopped>
> > Everything will work okay, but randomly it will lock up. I've
> > installed everything about 8 times and it just does the same thing
> > everytime. Slack 8 uses the 2.4.5 kernel and I've heard some horror
> > stories about it and ReiserFS, so I have a linux-2.4.7.tgz package I
> > made and as soon as I reboot, I install that and build a new kernel.
> > This seems to be fine, but it still locks up. It has to be something
> > to do with my WDC15300 hard drive. So I just gave in and put EXT2
> > back on my system. I kept the current partition scheme as I liked it
> > a lot because I want to play with some database toys I recently got.
>
> Under the assumption that in both configurations you're running the same
> hardware/sofware/daemons/everything except for reiserfs, then I would
> suggest running a memory checker. I have worked with a box that was doing
> something similar to what you described here with ext2 and reiser, and it
> turned out to be bad ram. I have also heard rumors of boxen that work
> fine with reiser but puke with ext2 also due to bad ram. You might try
> going to freshmeat and searching for memtest, if nothing else, it's an
> easy way to rule out the possibility.
>
> --Nick
> >
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