Re: Total lockups using ext3

[Romain Lerallut <rlerallut@free.fr>]

Thus spake Eduard Bloch on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 03:38:54PM +0100:
> 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

Ah ha!
cat /proc/mounts:
/dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0

Well I guess I just crossed the path of bug #127810.

Thanks also to Andrew and caphuso on #debian for how to remove the
journal (I'll read some more man tune2fs :)

BBL,
Romain
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