Re: My desperation: Oops during mkfs.ext3 on large partitions

From: Olivier Galibert
Date: Thu Mar 02 2006 - 09:50:53 EST


On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:47:11PM +0100, Paolo Roberti wrote:
> Maybe linux kernel should run a very quick test for RAM, it would take less
> than a second to run and would save people a lots of troubles...

memtest86 takes so long to run because you can not test the quality of
the ram in less that a second.

OG.
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