Screwy EXT2 and ReiserFS

[Nick Estes]

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<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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