Comment 181 for bug 330824

fr., 19.06.2009 kl. 07.26 +0000, skrev Nicholas Roberts:
> I have resisted posting because 'me too' is not helpful. However, I am
> operating two very different machines (no two pieces of hardware the
> same) with the same operating system (Jaunty [ext4] with all the latest
> updates). Both machines exhibit the same 'freezing' problem on deleting
> files and the effect is random with seemingly no preference to size or
> number of files being deleted.
>
> As an engineer I hate to give qualitative (versus quantitative) comment,
> but I have noticed that the frequency of system freezes has increased
> roughly threefold (conservatively) in the last few weeks, particularly
> since the move to 2.6.28-13 from 2.6.28-12.
>
> For the first time in 30 years I am having to modify my software to have
> it not delete temporary files just to avoid the operating system
> hanging... madness! Dare I say I cannot remember Windoze ever having a
> bug this bad; I think this one needs nailing fast gang.
>

If you need your computers to be stable, then there is no-one stopping
you from using EXT3, which is rock solid. EXT4 is not the Jaunty default
fs and warnings about EXT4 are clearly available in the release-notes:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904#Lock-ups%20when%20deleting%20files%20from%20ext4%20filesystems

My advice: don't jump on EXT4 until Karmic.

Regards,
Øyvind
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