On 2004-04-22 22:09, ryan@the-summit.net wrote:
I had some serious system lockup problems with SuSe 8.1 and reiserfs, but they were addressed with the "barrier=none" fix in the fstab.
The origin of that problem was also solved with a kernel update.
Now in SuSE 9.0, I am having similear system freeze issues with accessing some files on reiserfs. 9.0 doesn't like the barrier=none at all, and I haven't seen any postings on this issue.
That barrier problem dissapeared. Check you don't have badblocks on your HD (check kernel log) or other problems (run a reiserfsck while booted from the rescue CD). A HD read/write error will probably freeze your system when trying to access afected files. If the file is not crucial, system will survive - for the time being. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson