Re: Boot hangs on "Mounting local filesystems"

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:01:50 +0100

hondacivic@whoever.com wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> My Mandrake 9.1 is hanging on "Mounting local filesystems" pretty much
> every other boot.
> I can't figure out why. The logs don't reveal any problems, and I've
> done 'fsck -f' from a CD rescue boot a number of times, which
> sometimes revealed some problems that were corrected, and other times
> no problems were found.

Is your /etc/fstab okey? What about your harddrives, they 100% healthy still??

> Are there any issues or reliability problems with EXT3?

No, ext3 is considered rock solied to use, regadles of disk setup (RAID, LVM,
IDE,SCSI, ...).

> I never had this problem when I used reiserfs in the past.
> I switched to ext3 because of a performance chart I saw, where
> reiserfs looked pretty bad, and ext3 only slightly worse than the
> ext2, which was fastest.

ext3 is ext, but with a journalfile, the decrease of preformance in ext vs
ext2 is to keep the journal up2date.

> xfs was also rated fast, but wasn't available out of the box.

xfs isn't goot to use for a system, should only be used where you need high
preforamnce, but where dataloss don't matter (you will loos all open files if
the system hangs itself).

> I thought, ext3 seems defacto standard these days, so I figured, let's
> use something that's used a lot by others. But now these problems.
> I haven't lost any data yet, but I'm starting to get worried.

I would too, maybe time to get a new harddrive and backup all data to it.

  //Aho