Re: Another ReiserFS (rpm database) issue (2.6.0-test5)

[Oleg Drokin]

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
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