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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Arjan Filius <iafilius@xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Another ReiserFS (rpm database) issue (2.6.0-test5)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:49:59 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030916084959.GA27971@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0309151824230.24113@sjoerd.sjoerdnet>

Hello!

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:34:00PM +0200, Arjan Filius wrote:

> > What if you mount your reiserfs partition with "-o nolargeio=1" mount option?
> Hey! this seems to "fix" it!
> With this option even my original "problem rpm databse" is rebuild in a
> few minutes, and without consuming that much memory, and without any
> errors!

That means you have a error in your rpm binary. Probably you want to contact SuSE to get updated version.

> Without the "nolargeio=1" i'd had to add a lot of swap (on my 1.5Gb RAM
> system), else it got just terminated. And adding a lot of swap i still got
> some fatal rpm errors.
> So it seems the "nolargeio=1" solves all my problems.

No, you just masked the problem, but the bug in your rpm binary is still present.

Bye,
    Oleg

      reply	other threads:[~2003-09-16  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-14 16:30 Another ReiserFS (rpm database) issue (2.6.0-test5) Arjan Filius
2003-09-14 23:11 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-15  8:40 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-09-15 16:34   ` Arjan Filius
2003-09-16  8:49     ` Oleg Drokin [this message]

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