[lug] More ReiserFS -- hangs on umount??

[Ferdinand Schmid]

I had been running ReiserFS on SuSE for a pretty long time without any problems. 
  But we are not a SuSE only shop here and are also running several KRUD boxes. 
  With the last 2 releases of KRUD I noticed the same problem that you have 
seen.  I couldn't unmount ReiserFS partitions on RedHat systems but never had 
trouble with any of the 2.4 Kernels on SuSE.  So I assumed that this might be a 
kernel bug.  All commercial distros patch their kernels very well but this 
ReiserFS problem must have slipped through RedHat's testing.

I downloaded the latest stock kernel (2.4.8), compiled, and - it works.  The 
unmounting problem is gone now.

Based on Kevin it is advisable that you recompile your RedHat stock kernel 
anyway because they turn on ReiserFS debugging, which can cause significant 
performance degradation.

So - use the latest kernel and recompile.  Maybe Kevin can offer a newer or 
patched kernel in the next version of KRUD as an option.

Ferdinand

John Starkey wrote:

> I just converted 30 gigs on two machines to ReiserFS a few days ago. When I reboot it hangs when unmounting. I let it hang for 6 hours while I was AFK just to see if it would work itself out, but didn't.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this? Any idea what might be causing it? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 



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