Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 10:02 pm, Carl E. Hartung - SuSE Mail List Account wrote:
If it follows the same pattern this time around, the system won't be bootable in another hour or two and I'll need to reinstall 9.3 again. I'd appreciate some more enlightened ideas about the best approach for narrowing down the possibilities.
Carl, My answer was to get rid of the reiserfs and go to xfs, jfs or ext3. Since doing that I have no more problems. On my various systems which include a dell inspiron laptop, compaq laptop and 9 desktop type boxes with different mobos and drive types, my partition corruption has ceased.
While I'm not smart enough to figure out the cause of the problem the solution is simple and it works. Richard
Perhaps because of the majority of systems are using reiserfs, it gets this sort of kneejerk response - proved false by a later update post. I have had several "reiserfs" failures over many years, 100% of them have been caused by bad hardware - hard drives, IDE controllers, CPU's and memory, the latest was 3 weeks ago on my x86_64 laptop with a broken HD, the same problem seen both with reiserfs and ext3. Running machines here 24x7x365 1/4, the available IDE drives and other hardware WILL FAIL sooner or later as the collected piles here will testify. Reiserfs in use with full confidence on 2x SuSE 9.3 x86, 1x SuSE 9.3 x86_64, 2x Mandriva LE 2005 and 1x gentoo x86, all boxes using the latest kernel.org kernels. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks