Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (594 mails)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>]

At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:52:38 -0700,
Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> On 09/23/2009 02:29 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, 2009-09-23 at 16:57 -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
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> > > On 23/09/09 15:25, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > > > ...because s2disk will fail to thaw the system or be very, very slow
> > > > about it.
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> > > Just use ext4 ;-)
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> > You do so. I'm not that adventurous with my data. >:-)
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> ReiserFS hasn't really changed and neither has grub. Rafael's diagnosis
> in the bugzilla entry is probably right though. It's probably replaying
> the journal, which really just means traversing it and building a
> mapping table. It doesn't actually write anything. The big problem to
> figure out is why it's leaving loads of open transactions open in the
> journal for an operation that should be "clean."

IIRC, it's just a long-standing issue of reiserfs support in GRUB.
After S2D, it's still not 100% "clean" as GRUB believes, so it replays
journal.

The best solution would be to fix/improve GRUB, but this would happen
unlikely.  A classical solution is to create only a small /boot
partition with ext2 or ext3 and the rest with reiserfs.


Takashi
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