On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:53:09 -0400, DFS wrote:

> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238572
>
> "I can almost guarantee to cause a lock-up by trying to make an "iso" file
> from my /home/USER
> directory (~2.4GB), which takes data from a SCSI drive and then sends the
> iso
> image back to the same drive"
>
> "At one point I was getting one or more a day some days, now I am often
> going several days without
> any misbehaviour (although last night it crashed and trashed a VPN
> configuration file, the first data loss I can attribute thanks to ext3 and
> RFS)."
>
> "I ran the latest kernel upgrade (to 2.6.18.8-0.1) and the lock-up situation
> got
> much worse, with 3+ in 24 hours..."

Amazing.
How do people put up with this crap?

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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:26:11 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:53:09 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238572
>>
>> "I can almost guarantee to cause a lock-up by trying to make an "iso"
>> file from my /home/USER
>> directory (~2.4GB), which takes data from a SCSI drive and then sends
>> the iso
>> image back to the same drive"
>>
>> "At one point I was getting one or more a day some days, now I am often
>> going several days without
>> any misbehaviour (although last night it crashed and trashed a VPN
>> configuration file, the first data loss I can attribute thanks to ext3
>> and RFS)."
>>
>> "I ran the latest kernel upgrade (to 2.6.18.8-0.1) and the lock-up
>> situation got
>> much worse, with 3+ in 24 hours..."
>
> Amazing.
> How do people put up with this crap?

So, tell us, how do you put up with that crap?

--
Rick

* Rick peremptorily fired off this memo:

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:26:11 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:53:09 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238572
>>>
>>> "I can almost guarantee to cause a lock-up by trying to make an
>>> "iso" file from my /home/USER directory (~2.4GB), which takes data
>>> from a SCSI drive and then sends the iso image back to the same
>>> drive"
>>>
>>> "At one point I was getting one or more a day some days, now I am
>>> often going several days without any misbehaviour (although last
>>> night it crashed and trashed a VPN configuration file, the
>>> first data loss I can attribute thanks to ext3 and RFS)."
>>
>> Amazing.
>> How do people put up with this crap?
>
> So, tell us, how do you put up with that crap?

S'funny. I've created 8 Gb ISO files and burned them to double-layer
DVDs. On a 64-bit system. No problemo.

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