On Thursday 10 August 2006 22:45, stephan beal wrote:
It would *appear* that my lockups were related to corruption on my /home partition (reiserfs). i'm considering switching it to XFS because reiser has done this to me once before), but in retrospect, reiserfs's utilities have always recovered fairly gracefully from filesystem corruption, and i don't yet have enough experience with XFS to know if i would be so lucky with it. Stick with ReiserFS. Your own recent recovery is the reason why.
I do think you have the diagnosis backwards, however. I believe your lockups are causing the drive corruption and the lockups are hardware related--- very slim chance this would be a gcc problem... in fact, I would say no way. Set your machine up for a memory check... let it cycle several times (couple of hours) and see what turns up. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><