Re: Total lockups using ext3

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
Romain Lerallut wrote on Mon Feb 04, 2002 um 01:23:33PM:

> However, it would seem that my root partition is still mounted
> as ext3, though it's specified as ext2 in /etc/fstab:
> 
> dmesg:
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.

So your filesystem still has a journal and the journal flag set.

> But 'mount' show / as being 'ext2'. And I still have lockups,
> though less frequent than before, when I was 100% ext3.

Don't believe mount when looking for / state, better check /proc/mounts

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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