From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QoXWV-0007RS-EP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:13:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0BE521C1D2; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:13:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2196C21C10B for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.139] (helo=smtp8.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoXVF-0007Cv-7l for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:12:37 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp8.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QoXVE-0005BD-6T for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:12:36 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2259327C7 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:15:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QpVm4QCxebs2 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:15:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB7DC2143 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:15:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:12:32 +0200 Message-ID: <5685026.lRUxXVLg4P@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4E330CE0.1090904@gmail.com> References: <20110725182047.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <1719001.xkopxB8nfY@eve> <4E330CE0.1090904@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QoXVE-0005BD-6T X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.324, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_05 -0.50, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.81) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 441e824cfcd63d2f025f9c2f334de7b5 On Friday, July 29, 2011 02:41:20 PM Dale wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > To check this, you could try creating a new file (with size = 0) on the > > root of that drive, like (After you close and save all your work): > > > > touch/LetMeseeIfThisWorksOrIfTheKernelPanicsAgain > > > > If it doesn't panic, check if that file actually exists. > > > > -- > > Joost > > It worked fine and it was there with 0 bytes. Weird. Hmm... > I sort of gave up on this drive. I had a very kind soul to send me a > video card when I did this build. He also sent me a 250Gb drive. I > copied all I could to that but did lose a LOT of my videos and such. > Anyway, I'm doing this right now: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc > > I figure that will put it back like brand new and very blank. I'll > recreate my partition, throw a file system on it and see if it will let > me copy back to it or not. It will, is this the dodgy one? If yes, and this works, then there likely is/was something wrong with the filesystem itself that the filecheck tools didn't find. In this case, a copy would be really usefull for developers to try to find out what was actually causing the issue. > While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos? That is the > biggest thing I use that drive for. I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and other > shows that are now gone. Anyway, what are opinions on a file system for > videos on a 750Gb drive? I had reiserfs on it before. For large filesizes, I tend to use XFS. For small filesizes (like email and website), I tend to use reiserfs. Not sure what other options there are. JFS might also be good for large filesizes, but then you definitely need a good and reliable UPS to shut down cleanly. (If I remember it all correctly) -- Joost