From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: efsck doesn't like virtual memory? Date: 14 Apr 1993 22:58:46 GMT
In article <1993Apr12.225831.4540@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au>, pclink@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rick) writes:
> ... After upgrading to 99p7, I've found that efsck on the 300M
> partition gives hundreds, nay thousands, of errors. Needless to
> say, when this first happened I was mildly disconcerted (read:
> horrified). Rebooting with 99p4, efsck reported no errors. After
> experimenting, it seems that when efsck starts to make significant
> use of swap, everything goes to hell.
That's pretty serious. I can't think of anything major which has
changed between pl4 and pl7 which could cause this, except for the
SCSI drivers. I assume your partitions live on SCSI disks?
I think that the 0.99pl8 release cures the problems known to exist in
the pl7 SCSI code; you might want to see if this helps. It may well
do.
> Anybody else noticed this? Should I just switch to ext2?
Ext2 ought to give much better performance, but the extfs is probably
not responsible for your problems. Try out 0.99pl8 first.
Cheers,
Stephen Tweedie.