Barry K. Nathan wrote:

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:03:08AM -0400, David Wysochanski wrote:
 > I can reproduce this pretty easily with local disk.
[snip]

Make absolutely very very sure that you are *NOT* using SELinux --
reiserfs and SELinux do NOT get along right now (this is a known
problem). If you try to use the two together, you'll almost certainly
get freezes and oopses.

Nope - here's my /proc/cmdline:
root=0802 vga=0x314 selinux=0 splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/sda1 showopts console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 nmi_watchdog=1

If you're seeing this type of problem even without SELinux, that's
interesting...

-Barry K. Nathan [off-list ref]