i'll do the loop and i already did the memtest86 i had no probs and what about mke2fs it also segfaults and when it stresses the hardware why didn't it crashed the system and only segfaults without errors ? Olivier Sessink wrote: >On 0, svetljo <galia@st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de> wrote: > >>hi >>it works with IMB's JFS >>when i try mkfs -t reiserfs -f /dev/myData/SRC it segfaults : >> >>[root@svetljo mnt]# mkfs -t reiserfs -f /dev/myData/SRC >>mkreiserfs, 2001 - reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j >>=================================================================== >>LEAF NODE (8211) contains level=1, nr_items=2, free_space=3932 rdkey >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>|###|type|ilen|f/sp| loc|fmt|fsck| >>key | >>| | | |e/cn| | >>|need| | >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Segmentation fault >> >>isn't that a bit strange that reiserfs and xfs doesn't handle it, but >>jfs does >> > >reiserfs is known to stress hardware more, a lot of people with >almost-stable hardware get problems when using reiserfs. XFS might behave >the same. Test your system using memtest86, and run 'make -j3 clean bzImage' >in a loop for a while to check if your hardware is OK. > >regards, > Olivier >