Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4343 mails)

[Preston Crawford <prestonc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Michael Hasenstein wrote:

> See forwarded msg. below.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>  > He should try to mount his (hopefully) reiserfs partitions with option
>  > barrier=none. A update kernel is in progress.
>
> The kernels in
>
> ftp.suse.com:/pub/people/mantel/test
>
> have the barrier feature removed. He should use one of them and report
> back if it solves the problem for him. We're still trying to verify that
> this is really the cause of the spontaneous freezes reported on some
> systems.

What does it look like to mount barrier=none? Is this just as good as
installing a new kernel? Mostly because I don't want to go through this
hastle right now, but I too am having the kernel panic problems.

Preston