On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jure Pecar wrote: > > Bah, > > I actually got an oops within seconds trying to chattr -R +j on a /var/spool/postfix while it was running. It's redhat's 2.4.18-4smp kernel and i didnt have the time to write it down since this was on a production box and i needed it up ASAP. > After the reboot, i stopped postfix and tried it again, this time without problems. I repeated the procedure on another box, also without problems. Strange ... > > Anyway, looks like it's working. > > -- > > Jure Pecar > I am not sure in details, but it looks like a bug in ext3 in data=journal mode. My system hang when I try chmod +j on a file that was mmaped by XawTV capture. More info from developers will be highly appreciated. Ivan