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The 03.08.15 at 20:14, GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
I was aware of the 8.1 kernel problem, and the first thing I did when I installed 8.1 was upgrade my kernel. However I did not know of "barrier=none" option in fstab.
Well, if you updated the kernel patch from suse, you don't need the barrier thing - actually, if you do it, mount will fail. They removed the code, so trying to use it produce a parsing error. It is a way of making sure if you have got the patched kernel or not. By the way, the patched kernel may have problems with nvidia cards: very very slow 3D - at least in my case.
I now see it is is hinted at in SuSE's support knowledge base: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_update_kernel.html but not really explained how to do it.
True. From their point of view the patch solved it, I guess; the fstab
thing was never really documented - not for the average user :-)
The only doc I ever saw was this email, on this list - I'l paste it, it is
short and old:
|Date: 2002.10.31 15:38
|From: Michael Hasenstein
I looked at "man fstab" and read Carlos'December post: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Dec/0658.html I still have no clue.
Pity the archive has no body search - you'd found it. I just did on my copy ;-)
Could someone please show how my fstab table would look if I put in a "barrier=none" option in it.
Ok, just for curiosity shake, here goes; I used: /dev/hdb6 / reiserfs defaults,barrier=none 1 1 And it worked. If your kernel is patched, mount will fail: so try it first on an auxiliary partition, not the root one. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson