Ext3 users - Sep 2001 - ext3 0.9.6 vs ext3 0.9.9

Hello,

I have done extensive testing between 2.4.9 and 2.4.9-ac12 with ext3 
0.9.6 and 0.9.9. I also tried using both kgcc and gcc-2.96.
I have a problem with logging into xdm or starting the gnome-session 
totally locking up the machine while using ext3 0.9.9.
It seems to go away using ext3-0.9.6. During xdm/gnome-session the hard 
disk is under heavy activity. I have attached my
kernel config. If you want lspci -v or other info out of /proc just ask. 
It only seems to happen when logging into X or just after
so I don't see any error messages and nothing in the logs.

AMD Athlon 1.33ghz - 10*133
512mb PC133
KT7A-RAID
IBM ATA100 7200rpm 45GB - on HPT370 controller
Hercules Prophet II MX 32mb - Geforce2 MX - using Nvidia 1251 drivers
3Com 3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane - standard kernel drivers
SBLive 5.1 - using recent CVS drivers
Happauge WinTV- bttv -0.7.79

Hm. I really wonder if that's what's causing all my lockups, especially
when using xscreensaver or OpenGL apps, when I seem to remember them
working fine with the standard ac patches (no 0.9.9). I should try the
plain ac patches again. Wasn't 0.9.9 supposed to fix some stability
issues?

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:07:37PM -0500, Nathan G. Grennan
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have done extensive testing between 2.4.9 and 2.4.9-ac12 with ext3 
> 0.9.6 and 0.9.9. I also tried using both kgcc and gcc-2.96.
> I have a problem with logging into xdm or starting the gnome-session 
> totally locking up the machine while using ext3 0.9.9.
> It seems to go away using ext3-0.9.6. During xdm/gnome-session the hard 
> disk is under heavy activity. I have attached my
> kernel config. If you want lspci -v or other info out of /proc just ask. 
> It only seems to happen when logging into X or just after
> so I don't see any error messages and nothing in the logs.
> 

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