Rock up again

Last time I booted rock to do some actual work on the thing has been a long time ago; the major reason being that it's (60G) hard disk had died, and that I didn't have an immediate replacement disk of the same size (or larger).

So, rock was powered down in my bed room for what was probably around half a year. Or at least I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

There was still one (13G) disk in rock that did work, however; but I didn't use it, because it still contained some data. Until today, when I realized that I had perfect backups of that data, and that I didn't actually need that disk anymore.

Bye, data. Have fun in the eternal bit fields.

Rock is now running ext3-on-lvm on its 13G disk, based off of an etch beta1 installation. The idea of the LVM stuff being that I'll add a larger disk some time from now, and I don't want to make it too complex. Long live LVM. I hope.

With that, I also moved away from ReiserFS. I'd been using Reiser on rock ever since it appeared in linux-2.4.0, and never migrated away from it. When I sidegraded rock from a Pentium III/600 to the dual Celeron 433 that it is now, it became horribly unstable, especially under load. Now that I've reinstalled it without Reiser, it suddenly is stable as a, uh, rock (no pun intended). Could it be that ReiserFS isn't SMP-safe?