Sid Boyce wrote:
Not wishing to reopen old flames and wounds, but in the last 2 days I have had problems with ext3. On this 11.0 Alpha2 box I have /dev/sdb1 as / (JFS) 500G SATA /dev/sdb2 /boot (reiserfs) /dev/sda1 /ftp (ext3) 320G SATA Suddenly there was a system freeze that needed a hard reset and when booting, after the grub selection, a black screen appeared. I had to boot from 11.0 Alpha2 CD and run fsck. The ext3 partition was the one with the problem and it took ages to get through. The fsck for the reiserfs and JFS were all clean.
Last night on a box belonging to a relative on which I did a fresh 10.3 install to a new HD /dev/sda1 (160G PATA ext3), with the old 10.0 HD as /dev/sdb2 (80G PATA reiserfs), I inadvertently pulled the wrong plug and powered the box off. The ext3 drive drive took over an hour to fix, the reiserfs drive took minutes, complaining of 3 errors, quickly fixed with --fix-fixable.
Is there any chance we could have JFS as an install choice for 11.0? Regards Sid.
I have a development box running Alpha 2, used mainly for playing with DTV streaming. This is currently using (only) ext3 filesystems per defaults. It has had a few unexplained lockups similar to your description (maybe DTV problems rather than OSL?), but no problems with ext3 beyond the expected repairs, executed automatically and quickly. I'm planning soon to try JFS or XFS for the giant file deletion features (useful with DTV) - when I get the new Hard Disc I've promised myself. I certainly support offering JFS as an option, I can't remember whether XFS is already offered? I have to say I dropped reiserfs some time back... -- Cheers Richard (MQ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org