Re: EXT2-fs error

[John Heil]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:26:17 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Cox <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: EXT2-fs error
> 
> > > Possibly the result of the 'silent' bug in 2.4.1?
> > 
> > you are not the only one who found this bug. immediately after booting 2.4.2 i
> > received dozens of these errors, resulting in _major_ filesystem corruption.
> > after a half hour of fsck'ing i managed to bring the machine back into a usable
> 
> Had you been running 2.4.1 before that ?

I had, and received a bit different corruption involving inode and block
bitmap errors rather than directories... ac19 seems so far to have solved
it.

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