Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 21:27, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:16:01PM +0200, Ariel Biener wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > > > > > > It makes no difference at all. What purpose would it supposedly serve? > > > > Freing up memory, > > Until recently

Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:16:01PM +0200, Ariel Biener wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > > > It makes no difference at all. What purpose would it supposedly serve? > > Freing up memory, Until recently, unloading module didn't actually free up the memory, IIRC. In any ca

Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-12 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > It makes no difference at all. What purpose would it supposedly serve? Freing up memory, sometimes some modules have bugs and can be exploited in ways beyond us, and also, software tends to interract. --Ariel > -- > Muli Ben-Yehuda > http://www.mul

Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Tal, Shachar wrote: Did you try checking for bad blocks using dd if=/dev/hda9 of=/dev/null ? Shachar Tal Verint Systems I did now. To me, the "bad sector" theory doesn't add up. There are no errors reported from the IDE driver, dd does not encounter problems, there is no data corruption tha

Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:37:42AM +0200, Ez-Aton wrote: And about the modules - is it not wise removing unused modules? It makes no difference at all. What purpose would it supposedly serve? It makes some sense not to load them to begin with. Not enough sense to

Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:37:42AM +0200, Ez-Aton wrote: > And about the modules - is it not wise removing unused modules? It makes no difference at all. What purpose would it supposedly serve? -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ "the nucleus of linux oscilla

RE: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-12 Thread Tal, Shachar
Did you try checking for bad blocks using dd if=/dev/hda9 of=/dev/null ? Shachar Tal Verint Systems > -Original Message- > From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:25 AM > To: Ez-Aton > Cc: Linux-IL > Subject: Re:

Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-11 Thread Ez-Aton
Reiser does not handle BS quite well. The idea is that bad blocks on the journal (and this changes, so you can't actually track it as part of a single proccess or specific file, but where the journal has just been written) Since the journal changes locations, as far as I know, the reason might be

Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-11 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ez-Aton wrote: What is 03:09 device? Check your /proc/bus/devices and/or your disk section in /proc. If I'm not mistaken - that should be /dev/hda9, which is where /home is mounted from (and where all the processes that failed had open files). Do you get to hear weird noises out of your com

Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-11 Thread Ez-Aton
What is 03:09 device? Check your /proc/bus/devices and/or your disk section in /proc. Do you get to hear weird noises out of your computer during such a case? Do dmesg | grep 03 and check what 03:09 refers to. It might be bad blocks (my guess) or it might be some PCI device malefunctioning. My

Re: Reiserfs acting up

2003-11-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:48, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > First - a disclaimer. My kernel is tainted. I'm asking people here > whether anyone knows anything about it, before going through the process > of untainting my kernel (nvidia, vmware). > > I'm not sure what the conditions are, y