Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:35:30 +0100 | From | Frank de Lange <> | Subject | Re: hang with 2.4.14 & vmware 3.0.x, anyone else seen this? |
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:24:05PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Journaling will not do anything good in such case, as damaged kernel > could write damaged data to your harddisk. You should run full fsck > after every such lockup even if you are using journaled filesystem - > - unless you are 100% sure that kernel really stoped doing anything > instead of that it started doing strange things.
Hmmm, with ext3 that would not help you very much I think, given that the journal is replayed before the fsck is performed (fsck can replay a journal file). So if there's garbage in the journal, it might make its way into the filesystem. Or it might confuse fsck...
I use reiserfs on another disk in the same box, which does not suffer from the long fsck times, but does put a quite heavy load on the CPU during intense file operations. Simple tests with ext3 seem to indicate that it suffers less from this problem.
> Probably it is time for me to try Linus's kernel, but I have so perfect > exprience with Alan ones that I'm a bit reluctant to do that.
Yeah, same here. I decided to try a Linus kernel 'cause of some unexplained and unwarranted slowdowns - especially in interactive applications.
With mixed results, the slowdowns seem to be gone but other problems appear (like the vmware hangs). I'm back to -ac for the moment (running 2.4.13-ac5, waiting for others to bend or break the IDE patches :-)
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