Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion | Date | Sat, 24 Feb 2001 20:53:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 32Mb. The test results vary depending on what else is on the partition, > but in each case the last file affected is 01017 and there are sequences > of previous_number+4, for up to 8 files (but next file after this might be > previous+7 or previous +15, or sporadic). From other problems I've seen on > the list, maybe I need more memory to run reiserfs ?
No. Reiserfs cannot go around corrupting files regardless of the amount of memory you have. What is however quite possible is that there is a race condition on reiserfs (or in the VFS) that is triggered when you are paging and programs are thus sleeping on buffer and memory allocations
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